Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.19.2
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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īṣīkā-aṭavīm
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a forest of canes
Compound: īṣīkā (reed, sharp cane) + aṭavī (forest). The same Muñjā/Īṣīkā region named in verse 5. Vraja's sacred geography: every wood is a specific stage for a specific līlā.
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nirviviśuḥ
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they entered
Intensive of √viś — entered deeply, plunged in. The verb mirrors the jīva's deeper and deeper entry into prakṛti when Kṛṣṇa is forgotten; here it sets the stage for His remembered protection.
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krandantyaḥ
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crying out
Present participle of √krand. In Gauḍīya theology the cry of a dependent (ārta-nāda) is itself the trigger for Kṛṣṇa's protective response — exactly as in Gajendra-mokṣa (SB 8.2–3) and Draupadī's call in the Sabhā.
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dāva
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forest fire
The Bhāgavatam's standing image for the heat of material existence (saṁsāra-dāvānala). Viśvanātha Cakravartī and Prabhupāda both read every dāva-līlā in Canto 10 as Kṛṣṇa's pedagogical drama about saṁsāra and śaraṇāgati.
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tarṣitāḥ
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thirsty
From √tṛṣ. Material thirst — never quenched by material water. The Gauḍīyas read such terms as pointing to the deeper tṛṣṇā for kṛṣṇa-prema that nothing else can satisfy.
The cows, buffalos and goats wandered and wandered until they came to grove of reeds (isika). They were suffering from great thirst because of the heat (dava) of the sun.
Not only the cows but all animals had the same greed for nourishing their relationship with Kṛṣṇa. They are listed in their order of quickness: goats were the quickest to move and buffaloes were the slowest. They entered a forest of cane which was far from the bank of the Yamunā and growing in rough sand (where there was no water). They became thirsty because of the heat of the summer sun, which was like a forest fire. Thus they began to wail.
- What 'cry' from a place I never expected my responsibilities to drift into am I hearing right now?
- Where did relative ease drift into hot, thorny ground without my noticing?
Goats, cows and buffalo pass from one forest to the next until they wander into a thicket of sharp canes, the heat of a forest fire scorching them — a Vraja picture of the jīva moving from one mode of material existence to another, vana to vana, until the heat of saṁsāra forces a cry. The cry itself is the beginning of the līlā's turn toward rescue.
My note
Source: vedabase.io