Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 63: Lord Kṛṣṇa Fights with Bāṇāsura

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.63.3-4

pradyumno yuyudhānaś ca

gadaḥ sāmbo 'tha sāraṇaḥ

nandopananda-bhadrādyā

rāma-kṛṣṇānuvartinaḥ

akṣauhiṇībhir dvādaśabhiḥ

sametāḥ sarvato diśam

rurudhur bāṇa-nagaraḿ

samantāt sātvatarṣabhāḥ

SYNONYMS

pradyumnaḥ yuyudhānaḥ caPradyumna and Yuyudhāna (Sātyaki); gadaḥ sāmbaḥ atha sāraṇaḥGada, Sāmba and Sāraṇa; nanda-upananda-bhadraNanda, Upananda and Bhadra; ādyāḥ — and others; rāma-kṛṣṇa-anuvartinaḥ — following Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa; akṣauhiṇībhiḥ — with military divisions; dvādaśabhiḥ — twelve; sametāḥ — assembled; sarvataḥ diśam — on all sides; rurudhuḥ — they besieged; bāṇa-nagaram — Bāṇāsura's city; samantāt — totally; sātvata-ṛṣabhāḥ — the chiefs of the Sātvatas.

TRANSLATION

With Lord Balarāma and Lord Kṛṣṇa in the lead, the chiefs of the Sātvata clan — Pradyumna, Sātyaki, Gada, Sāmba, Sāraṇa, Nanda, Upananda, Bhadra and others — converged with an army of twelve divisions and laid siege to Bāṇasura's capital, completely surrounding the city on all sides.

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