Śrīmad Bhāgavata 1.14.8

Synonyms

api — has [kim²⁷]; ayam saḥ — that very; kālaḥ — time; upasthitaḥ — arrived [prāptaḥ]; ādiṣṭaḥ — [as] indicated [sūcitaḥ²⁸]; deva-ṛṣiṇā — by the celestial sage Nārada [in his statement, “You too should await that moment” (tāvad yūyam apekṣadhvam, SB 1.13.49)]; yadā — when; bhagavān — Bhagavān [Śrī Kṛṣṇa]; utsisṛkṣati — intends to withdraw [antarhitaṁ kartum icchati]; ātmanaḥ — His own; aṅgam — [humanlike] form [manuṣya-nāṭya-rūpaṁ deham]; ākrīḍam — [that He manifested] for the sake of play [krīḍā-sādhanam].

Has that very time arrived, as indicated by the celestial sage Nārada, when Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa intends to withdraw His own humanlike form that He manifested for the sake of play?²⁹

Notes

27Unless otherwise indicated, this and the following bracketed inserts in verse 8 are Giridhara’s comments.↩

28Vīrarāghava.↩

29There are several other noteworthy interpretations of this verse. Jīva Gosvāmī takes the word aṅgam, lit., “a part,” as “a gross or phenomenal body” (virāṭ-rūpa), and thus he interprets the words aṅgam utsisṛkṣati as meaning, “[Has the time arrived, when] He intends to leave behind a phenomenal body by ascending to His own abode?” (aṅgaṁ sva-dhāma-gamanena virāṭ-rūpaṁ tyakṣyatīty arthaḥ). Vīrarāghava takes the word ākrīḍam as “the locality for His play within the human community” (krīḍārthaṁ manuṣya-saṁsthāna-bhāgam). Accordingly, he takes the words ākrīḍam aṅgam utsisṛkṣati as meaning, “[Has the time arrived, when] He intends to displace His transphenomenal body of unalloyed being from the earth?” (śuddha-sattva-maya aprākṛtaṁ śarīraṁ bhūmer viśleṣayitum icchati). Vijayadhvaja Tīrtha takes the word ākrīḍam as meaning “the place of His play” (krīḍā-sthānam), and aṅgam, as “the earth” (bhūmim or pṛthivīm). He supports this with the Śruti, “[The Supreme Immanent Regulator (antaryāmī) is He] whose body is the earth” (yasya pṛthivī śarīram, BAU 3.7.3). Yudhiṣṭhira’s supposition would thus be, “Has the time arrived when He intends to leave the earth, the place of His divine play?” Viśvanātha Cakravartī comments that Yudhiṣṭhira’s words were spoken out of the grief normally experienced by or for relatives (bandhu-śoka), and in this respect, it was not an expression of ultimate truth (siddhānta). Yet, the goddess of speech Sarasvatī, using his mouth as an instrument, spoke most fittingly. Viśvanātha takes the word aṅgam here as meaning “Kṛṣṇa’s part (aṁśa-rūpam) in the form of Nārāyaṇa.” Sarasvatī’s utterance would thus be, “[Has the time arrived, when] Kṛṣṇa intends to send forth (sisṛkṣati, i.e., prasthāpayitum icchati) His own part in the form of Nārāyaṇa upward (ut, i.e., ūrdhvam) to Vaikuṇṭha?”↩

SB 1.14.8

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