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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 6.3.9
nīyamānam tavādeśād
SYNONYMS
nīyamānam — being brought; tava ādeśāt — by your order; asmābhih — by us; yātanā-grihān — to the torture chambers, the hellish planets; vyāmocayan — released; pātakinam — the sinful Ajāmila; chittvā — cutting; pāśān — the ropes; prasahya — by force; te — they.
TRANSLATION
We were bringing the most sinful Ajāmila toward the hellish planets, following your order, when those beautiful persons from Siddhaloka forcibly cut the knots of the ropes with which we were arresting him.
PURPORT
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura remarks that the Yamadūtas wanted to bring the Vishnudūtas before Yamarāja. If Yamarāja could then have punished the Vishnudūtas, the Yamadūtas would have been satisfied.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness