SB 10.16.4

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Tenth Canto - Chapter 16: Kṛṣṇa Chastises the Serpent Kāliya

SB 10.16.3 - SB 10.16.5

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Please note: The synonyms, translation and purport of this verse were composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda

TEXT 4

śrī-śuka uvāca

kālindyāṁ kāliyasyāsīd

hradaḥ kaścid viṣāgninā

śrapyamāṇa-payā yasmin

patanty upari-gāḥ khagāḥ

SYNONYMS

śrī-śukaḥ uvāca — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; kālindyām — within the river Yamunā; kāliyasya — of the serpent Kāliya; āsīt — there was; hradaḥ — lake; kaścit — a certain; viṣa — of his poison; agninā — by the fire; śrapyamāṇa — being heated and boiled; payāḥ — its water; yasmin — into which; patanti — would fall down; upari-gāḥ — traveling above; khagāḥ — the birds.

Translation and purport composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda

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TRANSLATION

Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Within the river Kālindī [Yamunā] was a lake inhabited by the serpent Kāliya, whose fiery poison constantly heated and boiled its waters. Indeed, the vapors thus created were so poisonous that birds flying over the contaminated lake would fall down into it.

PURPORT

In this regard the ācāryas explain that the Kāliya lake was situated apart from the main current of the river; otherwise the Yamunā's waters would have been poisonous even in cities like Mathurā and in other places farther away.

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