Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.44.5

utthāpanair unnayanaiś

cālanaiḥ sthāpanair api

parasparaḿ jigīṣantāv

apacakratur ātmanaḥ

SYNONYMS

utthāpanaiḥ — with lifting up; unnayanaiḥ — carrying; cālanaiḥ — pushing away; sthāpanaiḥ — holding stationary; api — also; parasparam — each other; jigīṣantau — wanting victory; apacakratuḥ — they harmed; ātmanaḥ — (even) themselves.

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. In other words, the Lords were fully absorbed in the pastime of being wrestlers.

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