Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 68: The Marriage of Sāmba

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.68.8

so 'paviddhaḥ kuru-śreṣṭha

kurubhir yadu-nandanaḥ

nāmṛṣyat tad acintyārbhaḥ

siḿha kṣudra-mṛgair iva

SYNONYMS

saḥhe; apaviddhaḥ — unjustly attacked; kuru-śreṣṭhaO best of the Kurus (Parīkṣit Mahārāja); kurubhiḥ — by the Kurus; yadu-nandanaḥ — the dear son of the Yadu dynasty; na amṛṣyat — did not tolerate; tatit; acintya — of the inconceivable Lord, Kṛṣṇa; arbhaḥ — the child; siḿhaḥa lion; kṣudra — insignificant; mṛgaiḥ — by animals; ivaas.

TRANSLATION

O best of the Kurus, as Kṛṣṇa's son Sāmba was being unjustly harassed by the Kurus, that darling of the Yadu dynasty did not tolerate their attack, any more than a lion would tolerate an attack by puny animals.

PURPORT

Commenting on the word acintyārbha, Śrīla Prabhupāda writes in Kṛṣṇa, "Sāmba, the glorious son of the Yadu dynasty, [was] endowed with inconceivable potencies as the son of Lord Kṛṣṇa."

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