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Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary)

by Śī Śīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja | 2005 | 440,179 words | ISBN-13: 9781935428329

The Brihad-bhagavatamrita Verse 1.7.101-102, English translation, including commentary (Dig-darshini-tika): an important Vaishnava text dealing with the importance of devotional service. The Brihad-bhagavatamrita, although an indepent Sanskrit work, covers the essential teachings of the Shrimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata-purana). This is verse 1.7.101-102 contained in Chapter 7—Purna (pinnacle of excellent devotees)—of Part one (prathama-khanda).

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.7.101-102:

मद�-अनाप्त्य� तु रुक्मिण्या वाञ्छन्त्याः प्रा�-मोचनम् �
श्रुत्वास्या विप्�-वदनाद् आर्त�-विज्ञप्त�-पत्रिकाम� � १०� �
मह�-दुष्�-नृ�-श्रेणि-दर्प� संहरता मय� �
पाणि-गृहीतः सङ्ग्राम� हृत्वा राज्ञा� प्रपश्यताम� � १०� �

-ٲ tu rukmiṇyā vāñchantyā� prāṇa-mocanam |
śrutvāsyā vipra-vadanād ārti-vijñapti-patrikām || 101 ||
mahā-duṣṭa-nṛpa-śreṇi-darpa� saṃharatā mayā |
pāṇi-gṛhīta� saṅgrāme hṛtvā rājñā� prapaśyatām || 102 ||

Śī ܰ쳾ṇ�-ī had taken a vow to give up her life if she did not get Me; therefore, she sent me news via a letter of distress. After hearing the news from the lips of the 󳾲ṇa who brought the letter, I smashed the false pride of those wicked kings, abducted Śī ܰ쳾ṇ� right in front of those besieged kings and accepted her hand in marriage.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Very well then, if You had no desire to marry, why did You abduct the daughter of Bhīṣmaka with such great concern in the svayamvara ceremony and accept her hand in betrothal? He is reconciling this doubt in the two verses beginning with (without getting Me).

Śī ܰ쳾ṇ� had taken the vow to give up her life if she did not obtain Me. Here, from -ٲⲹ comes madana (岹Բ-ٲ), that is, ܰ쳾ṇ� acquired some -vega or impetuous desire and had taken a vow to give up her life if she did not obtain me (in a joking manner).

Śī ܰ쳾ṇ� mentions this at the end of her dispatched letter in the Tenth Canto (Śīmad-岵ٲm or 岵ٲ ʳܰṇa 10.52.43):

यर्ह्य� अम्बुजाक्ष � लभेय भवत्-प्रसाद�
जह्याम� असून� व्रत-कृशान् शत-जन्मभि� स्यात्

yarhy ambujākṣa na labheya bhavat-prasāda�
jahyām asūn vrata-kṛśān śata-janmabhi� syāt

“O lotus-eyed One, if I cannot obtain Your indispensable mercy despite performing intense austerities for hundreds of lifetimes, then I shall give up my life-airs by performing austerities that emaciate my body.�

Then despondently she added something more (Śīmad-岵ٲm or 岵ٲ ʳܰṇa 10.52.43):

श्रुत्वा गुणान् भुवन-सुन्दर शृण्वतां ते निर्विश्� कर्ण-विवरैर� हरतो’ङ्ग-तापम�
रूपं दृशा� दृशिमताम� अखिलार्थ-लाभं त्वय्य� अच्युताविशति चित्तम� अपत्रप� मे

śrutvā guṇān bhuvana-sundara śṛṇvatā� te nirviśya karṇa-vivarair harato’ṅga-tāpam
rūpa� dṛśāṃ dṛśimatām akhilārtha-lābha� tvayy acyutāviśati cittam apatrapa� me

“O beauty of the world, O Acyuta! My mind has become shamelessly attached after hearing of all your qualities, which pierces the ears of your audience and removes their distress, and to that form of yours upon seeing which spectators receive all kinds of fruitful results…�

In this pathetic way, she recounted her condition. Upon receiving that letter sent through the son of a priest and hearing the information in the letter from his mouth, I abducted ܰ쳾ṇ� and married her. She is present before Me, so do not consider the account spoken by Me to be false. This is the import of the word (of her).

After hearing the account written in the aforesaid letter, I abducted Śī ܰ쳾ṇ�-ī in front of the besieged kings to crush the false pride of such kings as Ի and Śśܱ. Darpa� saṃharatā means to crush their false pride, and rājñā prapaśyatām means by disrespecting those kings. In other words, I married her by bringing her to ٱ from Kuṇḍinapura by forcibly abducting her right in front of everyone, in the war fought by ܰ쳾ī and other enemies. In this way, I married her, pressed hard by the approach of inevitable duty, not by My own sweet will.

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