Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.65.28
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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rāma rāma
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O Rāma, Rāma
Doubled vocative. The double cry of the name is itself remedial — Gauḍīyas (especially the nāma-ācāryas) read the doubling as the mantra-form of nāma-prabhāva. Yamunā chants her way back to safety.
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vikramam
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prowess
From vi-√kram (to step out, stride). Power, valor. The same word used for Viṣṇu's three steps. Yamunā confesses she did not appreciate Bhagavān's vikrama — the standard Gauḍīya diagnosis of jīva-ignorance.
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aṁśena
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by a portion
Instrumental of aṁśa (part, portion). Theologically loaded: Bhagavān holds the earth with one aṁśa — i.e., not even His full power, only a fragment. Gauḍīyas read this as the Anantadeva/Saṅkarṣaṇa doctrine: Balarāma as the cosmic substrate.
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vidhṛtā
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is sustained
Past participle of vi-√dhṛ (to hold up). The earth is held up by Him. Gauḍīya cosmology: this verse is one of the canonical proof-texts for Saṅkarṣaṇa/Ananta-Śeṣa as world-supporter.
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jagataḥ pate
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O master of the universe
Vocative phrase. The same title (jagat-īśvara, jagat-pati) that Nanda and Yaśodā used in v. 3 — but here spoken by an offender rather than a parent. The Bhāgavatam shows the title functioning in both registers.
The phrase ekāṁśena (“with a single portion”) refers to the Lord’s expansion as Śeṣa. This is confirmed by the ācāryas.
By one of your portions, Sesa , you carry the earth.
O giver of enjoyment to the universe! Because you give enjoyment to the universe, you should not afflict me. She repeated his name out of fear or out of lowness to make him face her, though he was angry. O strongest person! It is not possible to know your full powers since you maintain the whole earth by just one of your expansions, not even one of your limbs. Normally the sentence should read yenaikāṁśena. Śrīdhara Svāmī thus says that this refers to Śeṣa, Balarāma’s expansion. Very easily you hold up (vi—dhṛtāḥ) the earth. You do this to protect the earth (jagat-pate). Since you hold up the earth who supports rivers like me and the ocean by one of your expansions, it is impossible for persons like me to understand your real power.
- Where am I currently failing to recognize a divine address in my life?
- Whose voice am I dismissing that may be Kṛṣṇa speaking through them?
A child who has talked back to a giant suddenly recognizes the giant's size and stammers: 'I did not know who You are — with one fragment of Yourself You hold the earth up.' Yamunā's confession is the form of every theology done correctly: an admission of underestimation.
Earlier in this Canto (SB 10.13–14), Brahmā stole the cowherd boys and calves to test Kṛṣṇa, then found himself defeated and offering the famous Brahma-stuti — 'I did not know whom I was testing.' Yamunā's two verses (28–29) replay the same script in compressed form.
Gauḍīyas treat both confessions as paradigm prayers: the realization that one has acted in ignorance of the Lord's true status is the doorway to bhakti. The Yamunā-stuti is shorter than Brahmā's but theologically identical.
My note
Source: vedabase.io