Devanagari
तं निगृह्याच्युतो दोर्भ्यां पातयित्वा महीतले ।
पश्यतां दिवि देवानां पशुमारममारयत् ॥ ३२ ॥
Verse text
taṁ nigṛhyācyuto dorbhyāṁ
pātayitvā mahī-tale
paśyatāṁ divi devānāṁ
paśu-māram amārayat
Synonyms
tam
—
him
;
nigṛhya
—
holding fast
;
acyutaḥ
—
Lord Kṛṣṇa
;
dorbhyām
—
with His arms
;
pātayitvā
—
making him fall
;
mahī
—
tale — onto the ground
;
paśyatām
—
while they were watching
;
divi
—
in the heavenly planets
;
devānām
—
the demigods
;
paśu
—
māram — as a sacrificial animal is slaughtered
;
amārayat
—
He killed him .
Translation
Lord Acyuta clutched Vyomāsura between His arms and threw him to the ground. Then, while the demigods in heaven looked on, Kṛṣṇa killed him in the same way that one kills a sacrificial animal.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Lord Acyuta clutched Vyomāsura between His arms and threw him to the ground. Then, while the demigods in heaven looked on, Kṛṣṇa killed him in the same way that one kills a sacrificial animal.
KB 10.37.32
Vyomāsura was immediately thrown to the ground with great force and killed, just as an animal is killed in the slaughterhouse.
Purport
The
ācāryas
inform us that sacrificial animals were killed by means of strangulation.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
He strangled Vyomasura just as one strangles a sacrificial animal, just as Vyomasura had tried to kill the cowherd boys by suffocating them in the cave by blocking the opening.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
The devatās looked on in joy. The locative case is meant instead of the genitive. They were in the sky, for even then they were hiding out of fear of the demon. He killed the demon like a sacrificial animal by blocking his breath (paśu-māram amārayat). Such a meaning is according to upamāne karmaṇi. (Pāṇini 3.4.45) This was very suitable. In that game for punishing the thief they would imitate suffocating him for a moment, and he had also almost suffocated the cowherd boys in the cave. Kṛṣṇa did not stop performing such pastimes (acyutaḥ).