Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.47.40
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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gada-agrajaḥ
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the elder brother of Gada
Compound: gada (Kṛṣṇa's younger brother) + agrajaḥ (elder-born). The gopīs name Kṛṣṇa by His Yadu-family role — pointedly NOT by Nanda-suta. Every title-choice in this chapter is theological.
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pura-yoṣitām
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for the women of the city
Compound: pura (city) + yoṣitām (women). The pura-yoṣit / vraja-yoṣit binary returns. Gauḍīyas note that pura-yoṣit denotes the future queens of Dvārakā — Rukmiṇī, Satyabhāmā, the 16,108 — bhāktas in vidhi-mārga, not in rāga.
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snigdha-sa-vrīḍa-hāsa-udāra-īkṣaṇa
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with affectionate, bashful, smiling, generous glances
Compound (contiguous chain): snigdha (affectionate) + sa-vrīḍa (with shyness) + hāsa (smile) + udāra (generous) + īkṣaṇa (glance). The gopīs catalog precisely the glance-vocabulary of mādhurya-courtship — confirming they know exactly what they have lost.
The name Gadāgraja indicates Kṛṣṇa, the elder brother ( agraja ) of Gada, the first son of Devarakṣitā. She was a sister of Devakī’s who was also married to Vasudeva. The gopīs, by addressing Kṛṣṇa in this way, indicate that He now thinks of Himself mostly as the son of Devakī, the implication being that His connection with Vṛndāvana has now slackened. Because of intense love, the gopīs could not stop thinking of Kṛṣṇa for a moment.
Some gopis, other than those who were prevented from going to the rasa lila, then spoke with bitterness. Gada was the son of Devaraksita, the daughter of Devaka and one of the wives of Vasudeva. They address Krsna as the elder brother of Gada, indicating that Krnsa thinks of himself as the son of Devaki and elder brother of Gada, and his relationship with those in Gokula has weakened. "We worshipped him with our pleasing, shy smiles and generous glances. Is he now stimulating the love of the women of Mathura with his bold glances? Is he worshipping them? O Siva! Siva! His worshippable by us, but he is worshipping them. It is our great misfortune!"
Different gopīs speak these verses, but there is a connection between them since they were of the same mind. They ask about his happiness out of intense prema. They display hatred for the women of Mathurā, thinking of them as competitors, on remembering the Mathurā women after having a sphūrti of his pastimes with the gopīs. The possessive case (yoṣitām) is used to indicate the locative case. Gada was the first son of Devarakṣita, a wife of Vasudeva. He was younger than Kṛṣṇa. The gopīs had heard that Kṛṣṇa had great affection for him as a younger brother. This hints at a slackening of his attraction for Gokula, a slackening of affection for the gopīs, and an increased affection for the women of Mathurā. Udāra means excellent.
In classifying the varioius speakers by the different statements, some connection between the statements can be made. They ask about his comfortable situation with eagerness and greed for prema. Since he associates with the city women they describe the pleasing conduct of the city women. They have excellend (udāra) glances and shy smiles. Does our (naḥ) master, the elder brother of Gada, please the city women? Or they ask with pain in prema, “Now will he be merciful to us?” Though worshipped by the shy smiles and excellent glances of the city women, will he give pleasure to us (nah)? Present tense is used for the future to indicate that it will happen soon.
- Where do you revert to comparison even after generosity has briefly broken through?
- How patient are you with your own non-linear progress?
'Is the elder brother of Gada giving the city women the pleasure that belongs to us?' the gopīs ask. The question is rhetorical, the wound is exact. Vraja's monopoly on mādhurya is being audited.
My note
Source: vedabase.io