Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.26
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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catur-bhujaḥ
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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.
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padma-pāṇinā
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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.
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utthāpya
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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.
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samuhya
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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 manifested four hands so He could do all of these things simultaneously.
Krsna showed four hands in order to raise her from the ground, embrace her and wipe her face. He bound up her hair (samuhya).
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).
- 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.
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.
My note
Source: vedabase.io