Canto 10: The Summum Bonum | Chapter 54: The Marriage of Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.54.13
śaureḥ sapta-daśāhaḿ vai
saḿyugāni parājitaḥ
trayo-viḿśatibhiḥ sainyair
jigye ekam ahaḿ param
SYNONYMS
śaureḥ — with Kṛṣṇa; sapta-daśa — seventeen; aham — I; vai — indeed; saḿyugāni — battles; parājitaḥ — lost; trayaḥ-viḿśatibhiḥ — twenty-three; sainyaiḥ — with armies; jigye — won; ekam — one; aham — I; param — only.
TRANSLATION
In battle with Kṛṣṇa I and my twenty-three armies lost seventeen times; only once did I defeat Him.
PURPORT
Jarāsandha offers his own life as an example of the inevitable happiness and distress of this material world.
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