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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 17]
tam jighāmsum abhipretya vihāya nṛpa-lāñchanam tat-pāda-mūlam śirasā samagād bhaya-vihvalaḥ
tam-him; jighāmsum—willing to kill; abhipretya—knowing it well; vihāya—leaving aside; nṛpa-lāñchanam—the dress of a king; tat-pāda-mūlam—at his feet; śirasā—by the head; samagāt—fully surrendered; bhaya-vihvalaḥ—under pressure of fearfulness.
TRANSLATION
When the personality of Kali understood that the King was willing to kill him, he at once abandoned the dress of a king, and, under pressure of fear, completely surrendered to him, bowing his head.
PURPORT
The royal dress of the personality of Kali is artificial. The royal dress is suitable for a king or  kṣatriya , but when a lower class man artificially dresses himself as a king, his real identity is disclosed by the challenge of a bona fide  kṣatriya  like Mahārāja Parīkṣit. A real  kṣatriya  never surrenders. He accepts the challenge of his rival  kṣatriya , and he fights either to die or to win. Surrender is unknown to a real  kṣatriya . In the age of Kali there are so many pretenders dressed and posed like administrators or executive heads, but their real identity is disclosed when they are challenged by a real  kṣatriya . Therefore when the artificially dressed personality of Kali saw that to fight Mahārāja Parīkṣit was beyond his capacity, he bowed down his head like a subordinate and gave up his royal dress.
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पतितं पादयोर्वीरः कृपया दीनवत्सलः । शरण्यो नावधीच्छ्रुतोक्य आह चेदं हसन्निव ॥३०॥
patitam pādayor vīraḥ kṛpayā dīna-vatsalaḥ śaraṇyo nāvadhīc chlokya āha cedam hasann iva