Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.55.15
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pariśocati
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she is grieving
Pari + √śuc (to grieve completely, around-and-around). Not a passing sadness — the prefix pari intensifies. The same root names śoka, the emotion Arjuna confesses at BG 2.8.
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kurarī
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an osprey, kurarī bird
A bird famed in Sanskrit poetry for its piercing cry when its chick is lost. The Bhāgavatam repeats this simile for Rukmiṇī at 10.90.15 also — a fixed iconography for the mother-Goddess in viraha.
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putra-sneha-ākulā
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overwhelmed by love for her child
Compound: putra (son) + sneha (affection) + ākulā (agitated, overwhelmed). Same sneha-vocabulary as the Yaśodā-Kṛṣṇa chapters; vātsalya-rasa is not silent, it cries out.
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vivatsā-gauḥ
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a cow deprived of its calf
Compound: vi-vatsā (without-calf) + gauḥ (cow). The dharmic image — a cow who has lost her calf will not eat, will not move. Gauḍīya hearing: every Vraja gopī's separation from Kṛṣṇa is figured as this, the cow-and-calf vātsalya cracked open.
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āturā
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extremely distressed
From ā + √tṛ in the sense of being afflicted. Carries somatic weight — āturā is the noun-form used for one who is physically ill. Rukmiṇī's grief has crossed from emotion into bodily suffering; Rati names this so Pradyumna will move.
Your mother is in pain because of feelings of affection for her son. Bewildered about what to do, she has become afflicted as if sick. Thus she is in great sorrow (dīnāḥ). And thus she laments at all times (pari—śocati), while weeping. An example is given to show her hopelessness. She is like an osprey which has lost its offspring. Like the bird, she gives up eating and simply wails. An example is given to show her hope. She is like a cow who gives her udder to a calf even after it has died.
She laments because she lost her son. Another version has gatā trapā: she was shamed by the loss of a son. “She should not lament since she has a powerful husband.” She laments out of affection for her son. She is miserable, having lost all happiness and without power to think (āturā). She is like a cow which has lost a calf. She laments like an osprey. Or she laments like out of great pain, in a miserable voice at all times everywhere (parīśocati). Not only does she lament but has reached a pitiable state. She continually cries (āturā). In both meanings, the examples show her great pain.
- Whose ongoing grief over your absence have you not yet returned to?
- How does memory of others' lament call you home?
Far away in Dvārakā, Rukmiṇī weeps for her stolen son like a kurarī bird who has lost her chick, like a cow whose calf has been taken. Rati names the cost of separation: the Lord's līlā of abduction is paid for in His mother's tears, and recovery is owed back to her.
Devakī, before Kṛṣṇa's birth, watched Kaṁsa dash six of her infants against stone — her grief is the canto-1 prefiguring of every later mother's grief in the Bhāgavatam. When Kṛṣṇa later restores those six sons from Sutala in Canto 10.85, He answers her tears specifically.
Rati invokes the same theological economy here: a mother's separation from her child is a debt the Lord pays. Pradyumna's return home is owed not only to Himself but to Rukmiṇī.
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Source: vedabase.io