Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 1 Sanskrit: श्रीशुक उवाचएवं चर्चितसङ्कल्पो भगवान् मधुसूदन: । आससादाथ चाणूरं मुष्टिकं रोहिणीसुत: ॥ १ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-śuka uvācaevaṁ carcita-saṅkalpobhagavān madhusūdanaḥāsasādātha caṇūraṁmuṣṭtikaṁ rohiṇī-sutaḥ Translation: Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus addressed, Lord Kṛṣṇa made up His mind to accept the challenge. He paired off with Cāṇūra, and Lord Balarāma with Muṣṭika. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: हस्ताभ्यां हस्तयोर्बद्ध्वा पद्भ्यामेव च पादयो: । विचकर्षतुरन्योन्यं प्रसह्य विजिगीषया ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: hastābhyāṁ hastayor baddhvāpadbhyām eva ca pādayoḥvicakarṣatur anyonyaṁprasahya vijigīṣayā Translation: Seizing each other’s hands and locking legs with each other, the opponents struggled powerfully, eager for victory. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 3 Sanskrit: अरत्नी द्वे अरत्निभ्यां जानुभ्यां चैव जानुनी । शिर: शीर्ष्णोरसोरस्तावन्योन्यमभिजघ्नतु: ॥ ३ ॥ ITRANS: aratnī dve aratnibhyāṁjānubhyāṁ caiva jānunīśiraḥ śīrṣṇorasoras tāvanyonyam abhijaghnatuḥ Translation: They each struck fists against fists, knees against knees, head against head and chest against chest. Purport: The word aratni in this verse may indicate the elbow as well as the fist. Thus blows were perhaps also struck with the elbow, a technique seen today in various martial arts....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: परिभ्रामणविक्षेपपरिरम्भावपातनै: । उत्सर्पणापसर्पणैश्चान्योन्यं प्रत्यरुन्धताम् ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: paribhrāmaṇa-vikṣepa-parirambhāvapātanaiḥutsarpaṇāpasarpaṇaiścānyonyaṁ pratyarundhatām Translation: Each fighter contended with his opponent by dragging him about in circles, shoving and crushing him, throwing him down and running before and behind him. Purport: Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the word parirambha indicates crushing one’s opponent with one’s arms.
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 5 Sanskrit: उत्थापनैरुन्नयनैश्चालनै: स्थापनैरपि । परस्परं जिगीषन्तावपचक्रतुरात्मन: ॥ ५ ॥ ITRANS: utthāpanair unnayanaiścālanaiḥ sthāpanair apiparasparaṁ jigīṣantāvapacakratur ātmanaḥ Translation: Forcefully lifting and carrying each other, pushing each other away and holding each other down, the fighters hurt even their own bodies in their great eagerness for victory. Purport: Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains that although Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma did not, of course, harm Themselves, it appeared that way to Cāṇūra, Muṣṭika and others of mundane vision....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 6 Sanskrit: तद् बलाबलवद्युद्धं समेता: सर्वयोषित: । ऊचु: परस्परं राजन् सानुकम्पा वरूथश: ॥ ६ ॥ ITRANS: tad balābalavad yuddhaṁsametāḥ sarva-yoṣitaḥūcuḥ parasparaṁ rājansānukampā varūthaśaḥ Translation: My dear King, all the women present, considering the match an unfair fight between the strong and the weak, felt extreme anxiety due to compassion. They assembled in groups around the arena and spoke to one another as follows....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 7 Sanskrit: महानयं बताधर्म एषां राजसभासदाम् । ये बलाबलवद्युद्धं राज्ञोऽन्विच्छन्ति पश्यत: ॥ ७ ॥ ITRANS: mahān ayaṁ batādharmaeṣāṁ rāja-sabhā-sadāmye balābalavad yuddhaṁrājño ’nvicchanti paśyataḥ Translation: [The women said:] Alas, what a greatly irreligious act the members of this royal assembly are committing! As the King watches this fight between the strong and the weak, they also want to see it. Purport: The idea the ladies are expressing is that even if the King somehow wanted to see such an unfair match, why should the respectable members of the assembly also desire to see it?...
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: क्व वज्रसारसर्वाङ्गौ मल्लौ शैलेन्द्रसन्निभौ । क्व चातिसुकुमाराङ्गौ किशोरौ नाप्तयौवनौ ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: kva vajra-sāra-sarvāṅgaumallau śailendra-sannibhaukva cāti-sukumārāṅgaukiśorau nāpta-yauvanau Translation: What comparison can there be between these two professional wrestlers, with limbs as strong as lightning bolts and bodies resembling mighty mountains, and these two young, immature boys with exceedingly tender limbs? Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 9 Sanskrit: धर्मव्यतिक्रमो ह्यस्य समाजस्य ध्रुवं भवेत् । यत्राधर्म: समुत्तिष्ठेन्न स्थेयं तत्र कर्हिचित् ॥ ९ ॥ ITRANS: dharma-vyatikramo hy asyasamājasya dhruvaṁ bhavetyatrādharmaḥ samuttiṣṭhenna stheyaṁ tatra karhicit Translation: Religious principles have certainly been violated in this assembly. One should not remain for even a moment in a place where irreligion is flourishing. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 10 Sanskrit: न सभां प्रविशेत् प्राज्ञ: सभ्यदोषाननुस्मरन् । अब्रुवन् विब्रुवन्नज्ञो नर: किल्बिषमश्नुते ॥ १० ॥ ITRANS: na sabhāṁ praviśet prājñaḥsabhya-doṣān anusmaranabruvan vibruvann ajñonaraḥ kilbiṣam aśnute Translation: A wise person should not enter an assembly if he knows the participants there are committing acts of impropriety. And if, having entered such an assembly, he fails to speak the truth, speaks falsely or pleads ignorance, he will certainly incur sin....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 11 Sanskrit: वल्गत: शत्रुमभित: कृष्णस्य वदनाम्बुजम् । वीक्ष्यतां श्रमवार्युप्तं पद्मकोशमिवाम्बुभि: ॥ ११ ॥ ITRANS: valgataḥ śatrum abhitaḥkṛṣṇasya vadanāmbujamvīkṣyatāṁ śrama-vāry-uptaṁpadma-kośam ivāmbubhiḥ Translation: Just see the lotus face of Kṛṣṇa as He darts around His foe! That face, covered with drops of perspiration brought on by the strenuous fight, resembles a lotus covered with dew. Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 12 Sanskrit: किं न पश्यत रामस्य मुखमाताम्रलोचनम् । मुष्टिकं प्रति सामर्षं हाससंरम्भशोभितम् ॥ १२ ॥ ITRANS: kiṁ na paśyata rāmasyamukham ātāmra-locanammuṣṭikaṁ prati sāmarṣaṁhāsa-saṁrambha-śobhitam Translation: Don’t you see the face of Lord Balarāma, with its eyes copper-red from His anger toward Muṣṭika and its beauty enhanced by His laughter and His absorption in the fight? Purport:
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 13 Sanskrit: पुण्या बत व्रजभुवो यदयं नृलिङ्ग-गूढ: पुराणपुरुषो वनचित्रमाल्य: । गा: पालयन् सहबल: क्वणयंश्च वेणुंविक्रीडयाञ्चति गिरित्ररमार्चिताङ्घ्रि: ॥ १३ ॥ ITRANS: puṇyā bata vraja-bhuvo yad ayaṁ nṛ-liṅgagūḍhaḥ purāṇa-puruṣo vana-citra-mālyaḥgāḥ pālayan saha-balaḥ kvaṇayaṁś ca veṇuṁvikrīdayāñcati giritra-ramārcitāṅghriḥ Translation: How pious are the tracts of land in Vraja, for there the primeval Personality of Godhead, disguising Himself with human traits, wanders about, enacting His many pastimes! Adorned with wonderfully variegated forest garlands, He whose feet are worshiped by Lord Śiva and goddess Ramā vibrates His flute as He tends the cows in the company of Balarāma....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 14 Sanskrit: गोप्यस्तप: किमचरन् यदमुष्य रूपंलावण्यसारमसमोर्ध्वमनन्यसिद्धम् । दृग्भि: पिबन्त्यनुसवाभिनवं दुराप-मेकान्तधाम यशस: श्रिय ऐश्वरस्य ॥ १४ ॥ ITRANS: gopyas tapaḥ kim acaran yad amuṣya rūpaṁlāvaṇya-sāram asamordhvam ananya-siddhamdṛgbhiḥ pibanty anusavābhinavaṁ durāpamekānta-dhāma yaśasaḥ śriya aiśvarasya Translation: What austerities must the gopīs have performed! With their eyes they always drink the nectar of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s form, which is the essence of loveliness and is not to be equaled or surpassed....
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 15 Sanskrit: या दोहनेऽवहनने मथनोपलेप-प्रेङ्खेङ्खनार्भरुदितोक्षणमार्जनादौ । गायन्ति चैनमनुरक्तधियोऽश्रुकण्ठ्योधन्या व्रजस्त्रिय उरुक्रमचित्तयाना: ॥ १५ ॥ ITRANS: yā dohane ’vahanane mathanopalepapreṅkheṅkhanārbha-ruditokṣaṇa-mārjanādaugāyanti cainam anurakta-dhiyo ’śru-kaṇṭhyodhanyā vraja-striya urukrama-citta-yānāḥ Translation: The ladies of Vraja are the most fortunate of women because, with their minds fully attached to Kṛṣṇa and their throats always choked up with tears, they constantly sing about Him while milking the cows, winnowing grain, churning butter, gathering cow dung for fuel, riding on swings, taking care of their crying babies, sprinkling the ground with water, cleaning their houses, and so on....