मधुक्लीबञ्च माध्वीके कृतकर्मशुभाशुभे ।
भक्तानां कर्मणाञ्चैव सूदनं मधुसूदनम् ॥
परिणामाशुभं कर्म भ्रान्तानां मधुरं मधु ।
करोति सूदनं यो हि स एव मधुसूदनः ॥
madhu-klībañ ca mādhvīke kṛta-karma-śubhāśubhe |
bhaktānāṁ karmaṇāñ caiva sūdanaṁ madhusūdanam ||
pariṇāmāśubhaṁ karma bhrāntānāṁ madhuraṁ madhu |
karoti sūdanaṁ yo hi sa eva madhusūdanaḥ ||
(Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa; cited in Śabda-kalpa-druma)
“In the name Madhusūdana, madhu in neuter gender refers to honey-wine and to auspicious and inauspicious karma that has been performed, and the sūdana [i.e., destruction] is of [these] karmas of bhaktas. He who performs the destruction (sūdana) of madhu, that is, the [sometimes initially] ‘sweet’ results of the inauspicious karma of the ignorant is [called] Madhusūdana.”