Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.59.36
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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dvāravatīm
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to Dvārakā
Dvāravatī = 'the gated one' — Kṛṣṇa's island capital. Built specifically as a refuge after Mathurā's vulnerability was demonstrated; here it becomes the destination of liberated captives. The city is itself a Vaiṣṇava emblem of shelter.
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su - mṛṣṭa
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well-cleaned
Compound: su (well) + mṛṣṭa (cleaned, polished). The princesses receive new clean garments — Gauḍīyas note that Kṛṣṇa restores not just freedom but cleanliness; both body and circumstance are made new.
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virajaḥ - ambarāḥ
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spotless garments
Compound: virajas (dust-free) + ambara (cloth). Vairāgya is etymologically virajas — 'free of rajas (dust/passion)'. The princesses' new clothes are not merely clean; they are vairāgya-clean.
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nara - yānaiḥ
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by human conveyances (palanquins)
Compound: nara (man) + yāna (vehicle). Not chariots — palanquins, carried by human bearers. Gentle transport, fit for women who have just been rescued.
They travelled to Dvaraka in palanquins (nara yanaih).
He sent them to Dvārakā in palanquins. How did they look? They wore clean cloth after bathing in order to become spotless. They were sent along with wealth like jewels, cows and sārika birds. There was excellence because of quantity and value. Those guarding the wealth spoke as follows. imāni maṇi-ratnāni vividhāni vasūni ca / goṣu cāpi bhavet yāvat kāmas tāvaj janārdana / tāvatīḥ prāpayiṣyāmo vṛṣṇy-andhaka-niveśanam // kāma-vyāhāriṇaś caiva pakṣiṇaḥ priya-darśanāḥ // candanāgaru-kāṣṭhāni tathā kālīyakāny api / vasu yat triṣu lokeṣu dharmeṇādhigataṁ tvayā / O Kṛṣṇa! All these jewels and various types of wealth which are here fulfill all desires. There is the same abundance of cows. We will take all of this to Dvārakā. There are pleasantly singing birds, pleasing to see. There are branches of sandalwood and aguru, turmeric and treasures of the three worlds which you have obtained by dharma.
- Where do you free without providing the means to live freely?
- How does Kṛṣṇa's full provision reframe what liberation actually requires?
A father retrieving daughters from a hostile house sends them home not in his arms but in palanquins — the dignity of the recovery is in its ceremony. Kṛṣṇa, who has just killed their captor, refuses to handle them roughly; clean garments, palanquins, chariots, horses, treasures. The Bhāgavatam insists on the chivalric reading.
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