Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.28.8
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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anugraham
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mercy, favor
Anu-√grah — to take with, to favor. The very word for Bhagavān's deliberate kindness. Gauḍīyas: anugraha is not deserved; it is overflow. Varuṇa knows the rules of grace, not just of duty.
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aśeṣa-dṛk
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the all-seeing, the seer of everything
Aśeṣa (without remainder) + dṛk (seer, from √dṛś). Varuṇa names Kṛṣṇa as the One whose vision misses nothing — including the servant's blunder, including Varuṇa's own heart. Sarvajña in vocative.
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govinda
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O Govinda
Go (cow, land, senses) + vinda (one who finds, pleases). The Vraja-name. Varuṇa, in the depths of his ocean court, addresses Kṛṣṇa by the name of the cowherd-boy — a witness from the devatā-realm that Govinda is the proper name of Bhagavān.
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pitṛ-vatsala
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O You who are most affectionate to Your parents
Compound: pitṛ (father) + vatsala (affectionate, from vatsa, calf). Vatsalya means love that flows downward — usually from parent to child — but Kṛṣṇa exhibits the reverse: He is vatsala toward His parents. The whole chapter's vātsalya-doctrine in a vocative.
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nīyatām
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let him be taken (home)
Causative passive imperative of √nī. The same root that returned earlier in anayat (v.2 — the servant brought Nanda). The servant's bringing is reversed by Kṛṣṇa's taking-home; love returns the journey love misdirected.
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eṣaḥ pitā te
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this is Your father
Three-word naming of the kinship. Varuṇa refuses any tattva-hedging; he simply seats Nanda in his proper place: pitā te, Your father. Vraja-rasa is honored by the lokapāla without footnote.
Taking Kṛṣṇa to his house Varuṇa showed Kṛṣṇa his father. He addressed Kṛṣṇa as Govinda: you were most merciful in accepting the bathing ceremony as Govinda by Indra, a great offender. O Kṛṣṇa, affectionate to your father! By saying this, Varuṇa satisfies both Kṛṣṇa and Nanda. This also indicates “I recognized him as your father and kept him here in hope that I would have the good fortune of your coming.”
Seeing that the Lord was internally angry, Varuṇa became afraid and pacified him by showing Nanda. Govinda means he who enjoys Svarga as Indra. Thus Kṛṣṇa is Varuṇa’s master. Or though he was an offender, Kṛṣṇa would be merciful just as he had accepted abhiṣeka from Indra as Govinda Here is your father (eṣaḥ pitā), just in front. Therefore do not be angry, since you are devoted to your father. Take him and go. Or he is suitable as your father (eṣaḥ pitā) since you are Govinda. O Lord affectionate to your father! Please take him. Or please take him quickly home since the time of breaking the fast is almost over. There is a deep meaning to the phrase “affectionate to your father.” Because Kṛṣṇa had affection for his father, he should come to Varuṇa’s place for his father. Then in his house, Varuṇa could see him and worship him freely. Thinking in this way Varuṇa had brought Nanda here and put him in his house with devotion. My wish has been fulfilled. Now you may take him.
- Where do I leave myself out of my requests for mercy that I include others in?
- What rescue could I frame more effectively by appealing to a love the Lord already has?
When a king's child has been mishandled by a courtier, the courtier asks first that the child go home and second, almost too quietly, that the king look at him too. Varuṇa frames his prayer the same way: Nanda first, then a small parenthesis — "give mercy even to me" — knowing that Kṛṣṇa's pitṛ-vātsalya leaves room at the edges for everyone who served the father.
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