Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.56.39
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vrīḍitaḥ
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ashamed
Past participle of √vrīḍ. Vrīḍā (shame) is a Gauḍīya rasa-element — the gopīs feel vrīḍā before Kṛṣṇa, devotees feel vrīḍā at their own offenses. Both ennoble the bhāva. Satrājit's vrīḍā here is the seed of his eventual surrender.
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avāk-mukhaḥ
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face downward
Compound: avāk (downward) + mukha (face). The body language of remorse. Even Sanskrit grammar codes the moral state — face down, gem in hand, walking home alone.
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anutapyamānaḥ
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feeling remorse
Present participle of anu + √tap (passive). The same √tap as tapas — but here it burns inwardly as remorse. Bhāgavata teaching: anutāpa is the right tapas of the offender; remorse is the heat that prepares the soil.
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pāpmanā
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with his sinful behavior
Instrumental of pāpman. He walks home accompanied by his pāpa — until offered as gift to Hari. The Bhāgavatam's psychology: pāpa is a thing one carries until one hands it over.
Satrajit was repentent (anupayamana) for his offensive behavior.
The word ca means “but.” This distinguishes him from the other people who were excellent. He, unlike the others, felt remorse. He then left the assembly (tataḥ) and went to his house. The Lord, because of his affection, did not disrespect Satrājit, but accepted the sin as his own (svena).
- Where does material restoration coexist with the slower work of remorse?
- How do you tend remorse without it becoming despair?
Satrājit's hung head is the chapter's quietest scene. The man who installed a jewel where the deity should sit now walks home with his head down — the deity has corrected the architecture without a word.
Bhīṣma had once vowed to never let Kṛṣṇa lift a weapon; in the Kurukṣetra war he forced Kṛṣṇa to lift the chariot-wheel. On his arrow-bed he wept — not for his wounds, but for what he had pulled from his Lord.
Satrājit, walking home with the jewel and his shame, is in the same posture: the lesser man who has finally registered the cost of his demand on Bhagavān. The Bhāgavatam never lets shame remain a closed feeling; it pushes it toward atonement.
My note
Source: vedabase.io