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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.26

पर्यङ्कादवरुह्याशु तामुत्थाप्य चतुर्भुज: । केशान् समुह्य तद्वक्त्रं प्रामृजत् पद्मपाणिना ॥ २६ ॥
paryaṅkād avaruhyāśu
[paryankaad avaruhyaashu]
tām utthāpya catur-bhujaḥ
[taam utthaapya chatur-bhujah]
keśān samuhya tad-vaktraṁ
[keshaan samuhya tad-vaktram]
prāmṛjat padma-pāṇinā
[praamrijat padma-paaninaa]
paryaṅkāt — from the bed avaruhya — stepping down āśu — quickly tām — her utthāpya — picking up catur - bhujaḥ — displaying four arms keśān — her hair samuhya — gathering tat — her vaktram — face prāmṛjat — He wiped padma - pāṇinā — with His lotus hand .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
paryaṅkād avaruhyāśu
paryaṅkāt
from the bed
avaruhya
stepping down
āśu
quickly
tām utthāpya catur-bhujaḥ
tām
her
utthāpya
picking up
catur - bhujaḥ
displaying four arms
keśān samuhya tad-vaktraṁ
keśān
her hair
samuhya
gathering
tat
her
vaktram
face
prāmṛjat padma-pāṇinā
prāmṛjat
He wiped
padma - pāṇinā
with His lotus hand .
  • catur-bhujaḥ — displaying four arms
    Compound: catur (four) + bhuja (arm). Bhagavān's Viṣṇu-form appears momentarily — for sevā, not display. Gauḍīyas read this as the rare instance where Kṛṣṇa's aiśvarya is permitted to surface inside mādhurya-līlā; it surfaces because the moment demands extra hands of love.
  • padma-pāṇinā — with His lotus hand
    Compound: padma (lotus) + pāṇi (hand). The Lord's hand named for the lotus — soft, fragrant, opening. He wipes her face with it. Gauḍīyas note the deliberate softness of the epithet at the moment of physical contact.
  • utthāpya — picking up
    Causative gerund of ut + √sthā — to raise up. He raises the one He has cast down. The whole shape of bhakti is here: the Lord casts the devotee into apparent rejection so He may raise her into recognized love.
  • samuhya — gathering
    Gerund of sam + √ūh — to collect. Her hair, scattered at v. 24, is gathered here. The poet undoes the damage in the same order in which He inflicted it: hair, fan, face, embrace.
The Lord quickly got down from the bed. Manifesting four arms, He picked her up, gathered her hair and caressed her face with His lotus hand.

The Lord manifested four hands so He could do all of these things simultaneously.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
The Lord quickly got down from the bed. Manifesting four arms, He picked her up, gathered her hair and caressed her face with His lotus hand.
Commentary

Krsna showed four hands in order to raise her from the ground, embrace her and wipe her face. He bound up her hair (samuhya).

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

His compassion is shown in three verses. He raised her from the ground and placed her in his lap. He wiped her face continually (pra—amṛjat).

Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Aparigraha (Non-possessiveness)Karuna (Kindness / Compassion)
Related verses
The Lord quickly gets down from bed, manifests four arms, picks her up, gathers her hair, caresses her face with His lotus hand. Crisis-response is multi-armed; the Lord uses extra hands to comfort.
Reflection Questions
  • Where could you imagine Kṛṣṇa manifesting 'four arms' to handle your distress?
  • What does multi-tasking comfort from the divine look like?

A husband who has been reclining suddenly stands — but as He stands, two extra arms appear: shanka, cakra, gadā, padma quietly emerging. The aiśvarya breaks through the mādhurya exactly at the moment of consolation, because His full glory is the proof of how much He cares.

The four-armed reassurance to Devakī

When Devakī, in SB 10.3, first beholds the newborn Kṛṣṇa, He appears four-armed with conch, disc, club, and lotus — the reassurance that the Lord Himself has come to her. Only after that vision does He shrink to two-armed infancy.

The same four-armed form here lifts the fainted Rukmiṇī. Gauḍīya commentators (Viśvanātha Cakravartī) note: He needed extra arms to hold her body, gather her hair, wipe her face, and embrace her at once. The aiśvarya serves the mādhurya.

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