Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.56.44
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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satyabhāmām
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Satyabhāmā
Accusative of Satyabhāmā — 'true splendour' (satya + bhāmā). Her name carries the chapter's central irony: she is the satya that the jewel-named-truth Satrājit could not see. She is the real Satya. Naming is doctrine.
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yathā-vidhi
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by proper rituals
Compound: yathā (as) + vidhi (rule, scripture). Even Bhagavān marries by śāstric ritual — He does not exempt Himself. Gauḍīya principle: Bhagavān honours every legitimate vidhi even when He has no need of it.
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audārya
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magnanimity
From udāra (large, generous). Audārya — generosity of spirit. The Bhāgavatam names this as a quality of the Lord's queens. Satyabhāmā is generous in spirit even before she is generous in act.
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bahubhiḥ yācitām
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asked for by many
Compound idea: bahu (many) + yāc (request, passive participle). Many had asked; one received. Bhāgavata pattern — the Lord wins through patience what others sought through haste.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that men such as Kṛtavarmā had sought the hand of Satyabhāmā.
Kṛṣṇa had also brought home Jāmbavatī and married her but they arrangement did not take place in the same way, according to all the rules (yathā vidhi), since Jāmbavān’s family was not present. Because she was endowed with great character and beauty, and other accompanying qualities, she was sought by many others. It will be explained that she had been promised in marriage to Kṛtavarmā and others.
- Where do you grasp what should be offered to the Lord because you're afraid He'll take it from you?
- What 'sought by many' could you freely offer?
Satyabhāmā — śīla, rūpa, audārya — comes to Kṛṣṇa not as compensation but as treasure. The chapter that opened with a jewel ends with two queens: the Lord's wealth is people. Kṛṣṇa converts every offered object back into a relationship.
Later in Kṛṣṇa-līlā, Satyabhāmā tried to give Him away in a tulā-bhāra ceremony — placing Kṛṣṇa on one pan and all her gold on the other. The gold could not lift Him. Only Rukmiṇī's single tulasī leaf, placed in love, balanced the scale.
The story rhymes back to this verse: Satyabhāmā, who enters the family through a jewel-narrative, will spend her marriage learning that no jewel weighs as much as a leaf given in true bhakti. Her education is long; the Bhāgavatam tells it kindly.
My note
Source: vedabase.io