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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each Sanskrit word and its meaning.
  3. 3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
  4. 4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
  5. 5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
  6. 6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.
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Canto 4 · Chapter 10: Dhruva Mahārāja’s Fight with the Yakṣas
4.10.14.10.3

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 4.10.2

Visarga· Brahmā's creation
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Maitreya Ṛṣisince 4.10.1inside 3 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King ParīkṣitMaitreya Ṛṣi → Vidura

इलायामपि भार्यायां वायो: पुत्र्यां महाबल: । पुत्रमुत्कलनामानं योषिद्रत्नमजीजनत् ॥ २ ॥

ilāyām api bhāryāyāṁ

vāyoḥ putryāṁ mahā-balaḥ

putram utkala-nāmānaṁ

yoṣid-ratnam ajījanat

Translation

The greatly powerful Dhruva Mahārāja had another wife, named Ilā, who was the daughter of the demigod Vāyu. By her he begot a son named Utkala and a very beautiful daughter.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Dhruva Mahārāja’s Family Through Ilā

  1. 1

    The greatly powerful Dhruva Mahārāja had another wife named Ilā.

  2. 2

    Ilā was the daughter of the demigod Vāyu.

  3. 3

    Through Ilā, Dhruva Mahārāja had a son named Utkala and a very beautiful daughter. The translation does not give the daughter’s name.

How it feels

Rejection → Transformed aspiration. A child's wounded pride is purified by divine encounter.

Chapters 8–12 of Canto 4: Dhruva seeks and encounters the Lord. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 10: Dhruva Mahārāja’s Fight with the Yakṣas

After Uttama is killed by a Yakṣa, Dhruva fights the Yakṣas and faces their illusions.

Back to this verse in chapter 4.10
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. ilāyāmunto his wife named Ilā
  2. apialso
  3. bhāryāyāmunto his wife
  4. vāyoḥof the demigod Vāyu (controller of air)
  5. putryāmunto the daughter
  6. mahā-balaḥthe greatly powerful Dhruva Mahārāja
  7. putramson
  8. utkalaUtkala
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Key ideas in this verse

The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.

  • Visarga · Subcreation

    How do living beings and their worlds appear? · Subject 2 of 10

Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Which details of Dhruva Mahārāja’s family can I recall accurately?

Practice

Write a short family note naming Ilā, her father Vāyu, and her son Utkala, and noting her unnamed daughter.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayDhruva Mahārāja’s Family Through IlāThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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