Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.17
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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upaspṛśya
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taking bath
From upa + √spṛś — touching the water. Ritual touching of the river is a small ācamana, a daily devotional act. Gauḍīyas note: Yamunā-touch is treated by tradition as itself prema-prada — granting prema.
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viśadam
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clear
Pure, unclouded. The water has been clear ever since Kṛṣṇa removed Kāliya's poison. Bhāgavatam carries that doctrinal memory by adjective alone.
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kṛṣṇau
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the two Kṛṣṇas
Dual — Arjuna is also called Kṛṣṇa, the dark one. Mahābhārata frequently pairs them with this dual. Gauḍīyas read the unity in difference: Arjuna is Nara, Kṛṣṇa is Nārāyaṇa — the eternal Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣis re-embodied (cf. SB 4.1).
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cāru - darśanām
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of attractive appearance
Compound cāru (lovely) + darśana (sight). Whose darśana? The reader meets her with the same word the bhakta uses of the Lord — Bhāgavatam handing the scene a hint of the recognition to come.
The two were standing in a high chariot (mahā-rathau) so that they could see a great distance. They saw an attractive girl moving about (carantīm), trying to hide herself on hearing the sound of the chariot, or they saw a girl performing (carantīm) austerities in order to concentrate her mind on Kṛṣṇa. In either case it is not said they saw her and she saw them. They saw her only. Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa are called two Kṛsṇas because of they were attracted to each other by mutual friendship. The girl had a most beautiful form (cāru-darśaṇām).
- Where do significant meetings interrupt your routine and require attention?
- How do you stay alert in 'just bathing' moments?
At the same riverbank where Kṛṣṇa once subdued Kāliya, a different kind of meeting unfolds — the river herself sends up a maiden, as if to repay His old grace with a daughter for His household. Yamunā remembers Vraja.
Earlier in SB (10.16), child-Kṛṣṇa danced on the hood of the serpent Kāliya in this same river, restoring her waters. Yamunā has been His debtor ever since.
Gauḍīyas read Kālindī's appearance now as one strand of Yamunā's gratitude: the river offers her own daughter to the one who freed her. The Bhāgavatam's geography is rasa-aware — events return to the rivers that witnessed earlier ones.
My note
Source: vedabase.io