utthÄpanair unnayanaiÅ›
cÄlanaiḥ sthÄpanair api
parasparaá¹ jigÄ«á¹£antÄv
apacakratur Ätmanaḥ
utthÄpanaiḥ - with lifting up; unnayanaiḥ - carrying; cÄlanaiḥ - pushing away; sthÄpanaiḥ - holding stationary; api - also; parasparam - each other; jigÄ«á¹£antau - wanting victory; apacakratuḥ - they harmed; Ätmanaḥ - (even) themselves.
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.
ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ« explains that although Kṛṣṇa and BalarÄma did not, of course, harm Themselves, it appeared that way to CÄṇūra, Muá¹£á¹ika and others of mundane vision. In other words, the Lords were fully absorbed in the pastime of being wrestlers.
