Canto 10: The Summum Bonum | Chapter 62: The Meeting of Ūṣā and Aniruddha |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.62.33
taḿ nāga-pāśair bali-nandano balī
ghnantaḿ sva-sainyaḿ kupito babandha ha
ūṣā bhṛśaḿ śoka-viṣāda-vihvalā
baddhaḿ niśamyāśru-kalākṣy arautsīt
SYNONYMS
tam — Him; nāga-pāśaiḥ — with the mystic nāga noose; bali-nandanaḥ — the son of Bali (Bāṇāsura); balī — powerful; ghnantam — as He was striking; sva — at his own; sainyam — army; kupitaḥ — angered; babandha ha — he captured; ūṣā — Ūṣā; bhṛśam — extremely; śoka — by sorrow; viṣāda — and discouragement; vihvalā — overwhelmed; baddham — captured; niśamya — hearing; aśru-kalā — with teardrops; akṣī — in her eyes; arautsīt — cried.
TRANSLATION
But even as Aniruddha was striking down the army of Bāṇa, that powerful son of Bali angrily caught Him with the mystic nāga-pāśa ropes. When Ūṣā heard of Aniruddha's capture, she was overwhelmed with grief and depression; her eyes filled with tears, and she wept.
PURPORT
The ācāryas explain that Bāṇāsura could not actually capture the powerful grandson of Lord Kṛṣṇa. However, the Lord's līla-śakti, or pastime potency, allowed this to happen so that the events described in the next chapter could take place.
Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Tenth Canto, Sixty-second Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "The Meeting of Ūṣā and Aniruddha."
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