Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 50 Verse 18

Canto 10: The Summum Bonum | Chapter 50: Kṛṣṇa Establishes the City of Dvārakā

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.50.18

tava rāma yadi śraddhā

yudhyasva dhairyam udvaha

hitvā vā mac-charaiś chinnaḿ

dehaḿ svar yāhi māḿ jahi

SYNONYMS

tava — Your; rāma — O Balarāma; yadi — if; śraddhā — confidence; yudhyasva — fight; dhairyam — courage; udvaha — take up; hitvā — leaving aside; vā — either; mat — my; śaraiḥ — by the arrows; chinnam — cut to pieces; deham — Your body; svaḥ — to heaven; yāhi — go; mām — (or else) me; jahi — kill.

TRANSLATION

You, Rāma, should gather Your courage and fight with me, if You think You can do it. You may either give up Your body when it is cut to pieces by my arrows, and thus attain to heaven, or else kill me.

PURPORT

According to ācārya Śrīdhara Svāmī, Jarāsandha suspected that Lord Balarāma's body was indestructible, and thus he offered what might be a more practical alternative, that Balarāma kill Jarāsandha.

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