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Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu .3.35

asya sakhyaṁ, yathā –
[asya sakhyam, yathaa –]
śrīdāmnaḥ pṛthulāṁ bhumām abhi śiro vinyasya viśrāmiṇaṁ
[shreedaamnah prithulaam bhumaam abhi shiro vinyasya vishraaminam]
dāmnaḥ savya-kareṇa ruddha-hṛdayaṁ śayyā-virājat-tanum |
[daamnah savya-karena ruddha-hridayam shayyaa-viraajat-tanum |]
madhye sundari kandarasya padayoḥ saṁvāhanena priyaṁ
[madhye sundari kandarasya padayoh samvaahanena priyam]
devaprastha itaḥ kṛtī sukhayati premṇā vrajendrātmajam ||35||
[devaprastha itah kritee sukhayati premnaa vrajendraatmajam ||35||]
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
asya sakhyaṁ, yathā –
śrīdāmnaḥ pṛthulāṁ bhumām abhi śiro vinyasya viśrāmiṇaṁ
dāmnaḥ savya-kareṇa ruddha-hṛdayaṁ śayyā-virājat-tanum |
madhye sundari kandarasya padayoḥ saṁvāhanena priyaṁ
devaprastha itaḥ kṛtī sukhayati premṇā vrajendrātmajam ||35||
Devaprastha’s friendship: O beautiful young woman! In a mountain cave, Kṛṣṇa lay down and rested His head in the broad arms of Śrīdāma, with Dāma’s left hand covering His chest. Expert Devaprastha gave pleasure to his beloved Kṛṣṇa by massaging His feet in affection.

One of the gopīs once said to her friend, “My dear beautiful friend, when Kṛṣṇa, the son of Mahārāja Nanda, was taking rest within the cave of a hill, He was keeping His head on the arms of Śrīdāmā, and He was putting His left hand on Dāmā’s chest. Taking this opportunity, Devaprastha, out of his strong affection for Kṛṣṇa, immediately began to massage His legs.” Such are the activities of Kṛṣṇa’s friends out on the pasturing grounds.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Durgama-saṅgamanī
Commentary

Out of affection, Dāma placed his left hand on Kṛṣṇa’s chest (savya kareṇa ruddha-hṛdayam). In the compound ruddha-hṛdaya the modifying word ruddha (covered) maintains its original passive participle function with the instrumental phrase savya-kareṇa. This follows the grammatical rule samastasyāsamastena nityāpekṣeṇa saṅgati: A word inside a compound can be considered connected with a word outside the compound if their meanings are unavoidably connected by a semantic expectation. (Harināmāmṛta-vyākaraṇa 6.104)

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