चाणूर उवाच न बालो न किशोरस्त्वं बलश्च बलिनां वर: । लीलयेभो हतो येन सहस्रद्विपसत्त्वभृत् ॥ ३९ ॥
cāṇūra uvāca na bālo na kiśoras tvaṁ balaś ca balināṁ varaḥ līlayebho hato yena sahasra-dvipa-sattva-bhṛt
- cāṇūraḥ uvāca
- Cāṇūra said
- na
- not
- bālaḥ
- a boy
- na
- not
- kiśoraḥ
- a youth
- tvam
- You
- balaḥ
- Balarāma
- ca
- and
- balinām
- of the strong
- varaḥ
- the best
- līlayā
- as play
- ibhaḥ
- the elephant
- hataḥ
- killed
- yena
- by whom
- sahasra
- of one thousand
- dvipa
- elephants
- sattva
- of the strength
- bhṛt
- the bearer
Cāṇūra said: You aren’t really a child or even a young man, and neither is Balarāma, the strongest of the strong. After all, You playfully killed an elephant who had the strength of a thousand other elephants.