Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.54.51

prāṇāvaśeṣa utsṛṣṭo

dviḍbhir hata-bala-prabhaḥ

smaran virūpa-karaṇaḿ

vitathātma-manorathaḥ

cakre bhojakaṭaḿ nāma

nivāsāya mahat puram

SYNONYMS

prāṇa — his life air; avaśeṣaḥ — remaining only; utṣṛṣṭaḥ — expelled; dviḍbhiḥ — by his enemies; hata — destroyed; bala — his strength; prabhaḥ — and bodily effulgence; smaran — remembering; virūpa-karaṇam — his disfigurement; vitatha — frustrated; ātma — his personal; manaḥ-rathaḥ — desires; cakre — he made; bhoja-kaṭam nāma — named Bhojakaṭa; nivāsāya — for his residence; mahat — large; puram — a city.

TRANSLATION

Left with only his life air, cast out by his enemies and deprived of his strength and bodily radiance, Rukmī could not forget how he had been disfigured. In frustration he constructed for his residence a large city, which he called Bhojakaṭa.

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