Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.65.18
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pūrṇa
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full
Modifies candra (moon). Pūrṇa-candra is Vraja's signature lighting — the rāsa-līlā of chapters 29–33 also happened under pūrṇa-candra. The Bhāgavatam is repeating the mise-en-scène.
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kaumudī
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of lotus flowers that open in the moonlight
Night-blooming white lotus — specifically the flower that opens for the moon. Gauḍīya poetry uses kaumudī as an emblem of the devotee whose heart opens only for the Lord's light, not for the sun of empirical sense.
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yamunā
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of the Yamunā River
The river — Kṛṣṇa's eternal companion, daughter of the sun. In Gauḍīya theology Yamunā is herself a devī; her presence frames every Vraja-līlā. This verse stages her as the site, the next verses will make her a participant.
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upavane
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in a garden
Locative of upavana — pleasure-garden adjacent to a settlement. The Vraja-upavanas are catalogued individually in Gauḍīya geography (Vrṣabhānu-vana, Tāla-vana, etc.); each has a specific rasa.
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reme
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He enjoyed
Perfect of √ram (to delight). The root of Rāma. The Bhāgavatam plays the etymology: Rāma reme — the Delighter delighted. Gauḍīya commentators note that Bhagavān's pleasure is His name's verb.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī explains that Lord Balarāma’s conjugal pastimes took place in a small forest alongside the Yamunā, a place known as Śrīrāma-ghaṭṭa, which is far from the site of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s rāsa dance.
He enjoyed in a garden on the Yamuna which was bright with the rays of the full moon in the form of blooming white lotuses, served by breeze fragrant with lotuses, made to bloom by the moon, at the place know as Rama ghata, far from the place where Krsna performed his rasa lila.
The details are given. By Balarāma’s will, the nights always had the full moon.
How he gave happiness is described. The full moon shone continually at that time to please Balarāma or to give beauty to Vṛnḍavana. He enjoyed, surrounded by gopīs other than those who had enjoyed with Kṛṣṇa. The wind carried fragrance of lotuses or like fragrances during the autumn full moon.
- When did I last celebrate spiritually in good company rather than alone?
- What gathering could I lean into rather than excuse myself from?
A garden full-mooned and lotus-scented becomes, for one night, a small replica of Goloka — not because the geography changed but because the right person is in it. Vraja's gardens are theological furniture: they take the shape of whoever is dancing in them.
My note
Source: vedabase.io