Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.59.23
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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bhūḥ
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the goddess of the earth
Bhū-devī, Mother Earth — Bhauma's birth-mother. Gauḍīyas note that she appears precisely after her son's death; the same Earth that grieved Parīkṣit's curse in SB 1.16 grieves here too, and her grief is the doorway to her praise.
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kuṇḍale
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the two earrings
Dual — Aditi's pair of earrings, originally given by Lord Viṣṇu (per tradition) and stolen by Bhauma. The pair circles the chapter; their return motivates Kṛṣṇa's later journey to Indra's abode (verse 38).
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vaijayantyā
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the Vaijayantī garland
Vaijayantī = 'victory-flag'. A garland of five-colored forest flowers, traditionally worn by Viṣṇu (Bhāgavatam 8.18.2 describes Vāmana wearing it). Bhūmi restores to Kṛṣṇa what is iconographically already His.
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mahā - maṇim
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the great jewel (Mandara's peak)
Compound: mahā (great) + maṇi (jewel). The Maṇi-parvata — Mandara's peak — was the demigods' recreation ground (the site of the churning of the milk-ocean in earlier cantos). Bhauma had taken it; Bhūmi returns it.
Bhumi returned everything stolen by her son, including the jewel mountain (maha manim).
The Vaijayantī is a five colored garland and vanamālā garland made of leaves and flowers, extending to the feet. She offered him the earrings along with a vanamāla and vaijyayanti garland.
Bhū lived always in the house of Naraka, being his mother. Or she appeared at that time. She approached Kṛṣṇa, directly bhagavān, and her husband. The Vaijayantī is a five colored garland and the vanamālā garland made of leaves and flowers, extending to the feet. She offered him the earrings along with a vanamāla and vaijyayanti garland. Atha indicates all or after some time. After that she offered the umbrella and mountain.
- Where do you publicly return what has come back through your work?
- How does public handover prevent quiet retention?
A mother holds the stolen goods of her wayward son in trembling hands and offers them, with him gone, to the Lord who took him — Bhūmi's approach to Kṛṣṇa is the gesture of a grieving parent returning what was never truly hers. The earrings, the garland, the umbrella, the mountain-peak: a heap of borrowed cosmos restored to its source.
My note
Source: vedabase.io