Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 34: Nanda Mahārāja Saved and Śańkhacūḍa Slain

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.34.32

śańkhacūḍaḿ nihatyaivaḿ

maṇim ādāya bhāsvaram

agrajāyādadāt prītyā

paśyantīnāḿ ca yoṣitām

SYNONYMS

śańkhacūḍam — the demon Śańkhacūḍa; nihatya — killing; evamin this manner; maṇim — the jewel; ādāya — taking; bhāsvaram — brilliant; agra-jāyato His elder brother (Lord Balarāma); adadāt — gave; prītyā — with satisfaction; paśyantīnāmas they were watching; ca — and; yoṣitām — the women.

TRANSLATION

Having thus killed the demon Śańkhacūḍa and taken away his shining jewel, Lord Kṛṣṇa gave it to His elder brother with great satisfaction as the gopīs watched.

PURPORT

Various gopīs perhaps thought that Govinda would give one of them the valuable jewel. To prevent rivalry among them, Śrī Kṛṣṇa happily gave the jewel to His older brother, Balarāma.

Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Tenth Canto, Thirty-fourth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "Nanda Mahārāja Saved and Śańkhacūḍa Slain."

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