Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.34.6
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa
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O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa
Doubling in vocative carries urgency and intimacy. Gauḍīyas treasure this verse because it is one of Bhāgavatam's clearest pictures of nāma-saṅkīrtana at the moment of death — Nanda calls only the name, and the Name comes in person.
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tāta
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my dear (boy)
Tāta is used both for father and for beloved son — a reciprocal endearment. Nanda calls Kṛṣṇa tāta in vātsalya-rasa, the father addressing the son as if the son were the father. The rasa exchange is exactly the Gauḍīya theology of acintya bhedābheda inside love.
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prapannam
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(me who am) surrendered
Past participle of pra-√pad — 'one who has fallen forward toward, surrendered.' The technical Vaiṣṇava word for the soul who has taken śaraṇa. Bhagavān's vow (BG 18.66, 9.31) is binding precisely on the prapanna.
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parimocaya
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please deliver, set free
Causative imperative of pari-√muc — 'completely loose me.' Pari- intensifies: not partial relief but total liberation. Gauḍīyas hear in it the bhakta's prayer to be loosed not just from this snake but from the larger saṁsāra-grasp.
Nanda began to call out for Krsna, remembering the words of Garga that Krsna would save the inhabitants of Vraja from all dangers.
He called out Kṛṣṇa’s name twice out of fear and called out “son” out of affection. I have no fear of death, but fear of separation from you. I am surrendered to you since I am old or and under your protection (prapannam) since as a son you should protect me. Please free me completely, without any type of pain (pari—mocaya). This reveals a situation of a great devotee who could not solve on his own, and prayed that Kṛṣṇa come quickly. This was also seen in the Kāliya incident.
The snake was swallowing his feet or swallowed them. Nanda called out twice to Kṛṣṇa out of fear or affection. This snake is large. I cannot fight it by myself. It also suggests that as a devotee, Vidhādhara was the best of snakes. O son! Nanda calls him with affection. I do not suffer from death, but from separation from you. Save your father who is surrendered to you or is your devotee. This is said with humility or in pain. Free me so that everything is auspicious (parimocaya), giving up consideration of my own happiness, so that all are free of injury. Or by saving me without injury, the snake will be saved. Or the snake is swallowing me, your father. Save the snake from its curse. By doing that, I will be freed.
- When in crisis, whose name comes first to your lips?
- Could you practice now the surrender you would want to remember in danger?
Nanda, swallowed and dying, cries 'Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, my dear boy — save me, surrendered to You.' This is Vraja's Gajendra-stuti — the same nāma that the elephant-king roared from the crocodile's jaws, now whispered by a father from inside a serpent's belly. The cry of śaraṇāgati needs no posture and no breath to spare.
In Bhāgavatam 8.2–3, the king of elephants, seized by a crocodile in the lake, finally lets go of every reservoir of his own strength and roars the name of the Supreme — and Viṣṇu Himself comes flying on Garuḍa to lift him out by the trunk.
Gauḍīyas hold up Gajendra as the archetype of pure śaraṇāgati: the moment the jīva stops trying to save himself and simply names Bhagavān, the līlā of rescue begins. Nanda's 'Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa' in the snake's mouth is the same cry — but with the unfair advantage of being his son's name as well.
My note
Source: vedabase.io