Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.1

śrī-rājovāca

niśamya devah sva-bhatopavarnitam

pratyāha kim tān api dharmarājah

evam hatājño vihatān murārer

naideśikair yasya vaśe jano 'yam

SYNONYMS

śrī-rājā uvāca — the King said; niśamya — after hearing; devah — Lord Yamarāja; sva-bhata — of his own servants; upavarnitam — the statements; pratyāha — replied; kim — what; tān — unto them; api — also; dharma-rājah — Yamarāja, the superintendent of death and the judge of religious and irreligious activities; evam — thus; hata-ājñah — whose order was foiled; vihatān — who were defeated; murāreh naideśikaih — by the order carriers of Murāri, Krishna; yasya — of whom; vaśe — under the subjugation; janah ayam — all the people of the world.

TRANSLATION

King Parīkshit said: O my lord, O Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Yamarāja is the controller of all living entities in terms of their religious and irreligious activities, but his order had been foiled. When his servants, the Yamadūtas, informed him of their defeat by the Vishnudūtas, who had stopped them from arresting Ajāmila, what did he reply?

PURPORT

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura says that although the statements of the Yamadūtas were fully upheld by Vedic principles, the statements of the Vishnudūtas were triumphant. This was confirmed by Yamarāja himself.

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