Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 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; ahamI; vai — indeed; saḿyugāni — battles; parājitaḥ — lost; trayaḥ-viḿśatibhiḥ — twenty-three; sainyaiḥ — with armies; jigye — won; ekam — one; ahamI; 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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