Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.42.25
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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avanikta
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having been bathed
Past participle of ava + √nij — to wash down. Specifically: pāda-prakṣālana, the foot-washing rite. Gauḍīya pūjā preserves it as a primary upacāra. The Bhāgavata records the household sevā being performed for the Lord by His own people.
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aṅghri-yugalau
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the two feet of each of Them
Compound: aṅghri (foot) + yugala (pair). Lotus-feet pair. Gauḍīya: aṅghri-yugala is the bhakta's perpetual meditation. The cowherds, who served those feet daily, are still doing what every later sādhaka tries to do.
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kṣīra-upasecanam
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rice sprinkled with milk
Compound: kṣīra (milk) + upasecana (sprinkling). The cowherd staple. Gauḍīya note: prasāda-tattva — the Lord enjoys not delicacies but His own pastoral fare; the milk of Vraja follows Him to Mathurā.
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kaṁsa-cikīrṣitam
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what Kaṁsa intended to do
Contiguous compound: Kaṁsa + cikīrṣita (the wished-to-be-done; desiderative). The Bhāgavata's precise grammar — Kaṁsa's plot exists only as desire, never as accomplishment. Gauḍīya: asuric will is always cikīrṣā, never kṛti.
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sukham
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comfortably
From √sukh. Adverbial. Kṛṣṇa sleeps comfortably. Gauḍīya commentary (Viśvanātha): the Lord's sukha is a teaching — His bhakta need not lose sleep over the world's plots; the Lord has already managed them in His sleep.
Servants washed Krsna and Balarama’s feet. They ate rice sprinkled with milk from dear cows with calves in Vraja, which had been placed by Yasoda on the stove in the cart. They slept soundly, though knowing that the next day Kamsa wanted to kill them. They slept soundly, not hearing the words of their fearful father Nanda, "O my children what have you foolishly done today? Why did you break the bow they were worshiping and then kill the guards? I do not know what angry Kamsa will do tomorrow. Why did I bring you two brothers here?"
Having had their feet washed by servants they ate rice mixed with milk, which had been prepared by Yaśodā for them eat in the evening. This had been kept in pots on stoves within the carts. Knowing that tomorrow Kaṁsa desired to arrange for the wrestling match in the arena amidst huge crowds in the stands, having heard this from others, they spent the night peacefully knowing that they would easily kill Kaṁsa. After killing the washer man and others they ate without bathing, only washing their feet since one must consider that killing sinful people was the highest dharma. One should give great respect to the glories of Mathurā: it is said that each inch of the place is a tīrtha and each foot is a temple. It was thus permissible that they bathed afterwards.
Knowing Kaṁsa’s evil intentions, they spent the night happily, since they were fearless and had seen the wealth of the city. Or they slept happily with the desire to kill the wrestlers in the arena amidst the crowd in the morning. They had a method of easily killing the demons. They had a desire to wrestle, like playing the cowherd boys. Niyuddham ātmano ‘bhiṣṭam: Kṛṣṇa liked to wrestle and welcomed the challenge. (SB 10.43.36)
- Where does anticipation of tomorrow rob your sleep that Kṛṣṇa would not lose?
- How could you eat rice and milk and sleep tonight despite knowing what's coming?
A surgeon eats a quiet supper the night before a difficult operation and sleeps soundly because the work is already finished in His mind. Kṛṣṇa, knowing Kaṁsa's plot in full, takes His milk-rice and sleeps comfortably. The line between knowing-everything and worrying-about-everything is what separates Bhagavān from us.
My note
Source: vedabase.io