SB 10.41.39 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.41.39

वसित्वात्मप्रिये वस्‍‍‍‍‍त्रे कृष्ण: सङ्कर्षणस्तथा । शेषाण्यादत्त गोपेभ्यो विसृज्य भुवि कानिचित् ॥ ३९ ॥

vasitvātma-priye vastre

[vasitvaatma-priye vastre]

kṛṣṇaḥ saṅkarṣaṇas tathā

[krishnah sankarshanas tathaa]

śeṣāṇy ādatta gopebhyo

[sheshaany aadatta gopebhyo]

visṛjya bhuvi kānicit

[visrijya bhuvi kaanichit]

Word-for-word

vasitvā — dressing Himself ātma - priye — which He liked vastre — in a pair of garments kṛṣṇaḥ — Kṛṣṇa saṅkarṣaṇaḥ — Balarāma tathā — also śeṣāṇi — the rest ādatta — He gave gopebhyaḥ — to the cowherd boys visṛjya — throwing away bhuvi — on the ground kānicit — several .

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

vasitvātma-priye vastre

vasitvā

dressing Himself

ātma - priye

which He liked

vastre

in a pair of garments

kṛṣṇaḥ saṅkarṣaṇas tathā

kṛṣṇaḥ

Kṛṣṇa

saṅkarṣaṇaḥ

Balarāma

tathā

also

śeṣāṇy ādatta gopebhyo

śeṣāṇi

the rest

ādatta

He gave

gopebhyaḥ

to the cowherd boys

visṛjya bhuvi kānicit

visṛjya

throwing away

bhuvi

on the ground

kānicit

several .

Important Words

ātma-priye — which He liked
Compound locative: ātma (self) + priya (dear). The garments are 'self-pleasing' — Kṛṣṇa chooses for His own pleasure. Gauḍīyas note: ātmārāma Bhagavān, even in a small wardrobe-decision, is pleasing only Himself, by His own taste.
gopebhyaḥ — to the cowherd boys
Dative plural of gopa. Vraja's sakhās receive the king's silks. The geographic-and-bhāva-inversion is complete: forest-cloth and city-cloth have changed places. Sakhya outranks aiśvarya in the Lord's distribution-list.
śeṣāṇi — the remainder
Nominative plural of śeṣa — remainder, residue. Kṛṣṇa eats the residue (yajña-śeṣa) is a Bhāgavata-Gītā idiom; here He distributes the residue. The verb-field is the same: residue is what Bhagavān manages.
saṅkarṣaṇaḥ — Balarāma
Nominative. Balarāma is named with His vyūha-name Saṅkarṣaṇa — the one who pulls together. Even in the act of dressing, Gauḍīyas emphasize: Balarāma is constitutive, never an accessory to the scene.

Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma put on pairs of garments that especially pleased Them, and then Kṛṣṇa distributed the remaining clothes among the cowherd boys, leaving some scattered on the ground.

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma put on pairs of garments that especially pleased Them, and then Kṛṣṇa distributed the remaining clothes among the cowherd boys, leaving some scattered on the ground.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya

Commentary

Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma dressed themselves in yellow and blue lower and upper cloths, dear to them (ātma-priye). They gave cloth to each of the other boys according to the desire of each (ādatta). Or they took the extra cloth to give it out. The intention of the Lord was this. “These splendid cloths have been given by Kaṁsa to glorify his family members at the great festival. To destroy his glory I will make my family glorious. First I will uproot his confidence.” Actually these clothes belonged to Kṛṣṇa, like the daughters of kings stolen by Narkāsura. By the līlā-śakti, for creating sweetness in his pastimes, he obtained those cloths.

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Concepts

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Personal Guidance

Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma put on pleasing garments; Kṛṣṇa distributes the rest among the cowherd boys, leaving some scattered. The Lord shares the spoils with His companions; abundance gets redistributed casually.

Reflection Questions

Where do you hoard rather than redistribute what comes through service?
What 'extra clothes' could you scatter among your community today?

Analogy

Kṛṣṇa dresses Himself and Balarāma in the new silks, gives the rest to His cowherd boys, and lets some fall on the road. Distribution is the bhāva: Vraja's sakhās are dressed first; Mathurā's earth gets the leftovers.

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