🪷 ŚB 3.2.16

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

मां खेदयत्येतदजस्य जन्म- विडम्बनं यद्वसुदेवगेहे । व्रजे च वासोऽरिभयादिव स्वयं पुराद् व्यवात्सीद्यदनन्तवीर्य: ॥ १६ ॥

Transliteration

māṁ khedayaty etad ajasya janma- viḍambanaṁ yad vasudeva-gehe vraje ca vāso ’ri-bhayād iva svayaṁ purād vyavātsīd yad-ananta-vīryaḥ
Synonyms
mām — to me; khedayati — gives me distress; etat — this; ajasya — of the unborn; janma — birth; viḍambanam — bewildering; yat — that; vasudeva-gehe — in the home of Vasudeva; vraje — in Vṛndāvana; ca — also; vāsaḥ — inhabitation; ari — enemy; bhayāt — because of fear; iva — as if; svayam — Himself; purāt — from Mathurā Purī; vyavātsīt — fled; yat — one who is; ananta-vīryaḥ — unlimitedly powerful.

Translation

When I think of Lord Kṛṣṇa — how He was born in the prison house of Vasudeva although He is unborn, how He went away from His father’s protection to Vraja and lived there incognito out of fear of the enemy, and how, although unlimitedly powerful, He fled from Mathurā in fear — all these bewildering incidents give me distress.

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