Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.44.38

taḿ samparetaḿ vicakarṣa bhūmau

harir yathebhaḿ jagato vipaśyataḥ

hā heti śabdaḥ su-mahāḿs tadābhūd

udīritaḥ sarva-janair narendra

SYNONYMS

tam — him; samparetam — dead; vicakarṣa — dragged; bhūmau — along the ground; hariḥ — a lion; yathā — as; ibham — an elephant; jagataḥ — all the people; vipaśyataḥ — as they looked on; hā hā iti — "Oh, oh!"; śabdaḥ — the sound; su-mahān — mighty; tadā — then; abhūt — arose; udīritaḥ — spoken; sarva-janaiḥ — by all the people; nara-indra — O ruler of men (King Parīkṣit).

TRANSLATION

As a lion drags a dead elephant, the Lord then dragged Kaḿsa's dead body along the ground in full view of everyone present. O King, all the people in the arena tumultuously cried out, "Oh! Oh!"

PURPORT

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī explains that many people in the audience thought Kaḿsa had simply been knocked unconscious when thrown from the lofty dais. Therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa dragged his corpse so everyone would realize that the evil King was indeed dead. Thus the exclamation hā hā indicates how surprised the people were that the King was suddenly dead and gone.

The audience's astonishment is also mentioned in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa:

tato hāhā-kṛtaḿ sarvam

āsīt tad-rańga-maṇḍalam

avajñayā hataḿ dṛṣṭvā

kṛṣṇena mathureśvaram

"Then the entire arena became filled with cries of astonishment as the people saw that the master of Mathurā had been contemptuously killed by Kṛṣṇa."

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