🪷 ŚB 3.2.30

standalone verse · received passage 30 · Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, translation

Sanskrit

प्रयुक्तान् भोजराजेन मायिन: कामरूपिण: । लीलया व्यनुदत्तांस्तान् बाल: क्रीडनकानिव ॥ ३० ॥

Transliteration

prayuktān bhoja-rājena māyinaḥ kāma-rūpiṇaḥ līlayā vyanudat tāṁs tān bālaḥ krīḍanakān iva
Synonyms
prayuktān — engaged; bhoja-rājena — by King Kaṁsa; māyinaḥ — great wizards; kāma-rūpiṇaḥ — who could assume any form they liked; līlayā — in the course of the pastimes; vyanudat — killed; tān — them; tān — as they came there; bālaḥ — the child; krīḍanakān — dolls; iva — like that.

Translation

The great wizards who were able to assume any form were engaged by the King of Bhoja, Kaṁsa, to kill Kṛṣṇa, but in the course of His pastimes the Lord killed them as easily as a child breaks dolls.

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