Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.65.31
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vihṛtya
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having played
Absolutive of vi-√hṛ (to sport). The same root that names vihāra — divine play. The verse signals the formal end of one līlā-unit. Gauḍīyas mark vihāra as a technical term: it is play and not work.
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asita
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blue
Lit. 'not-white' — dark blue. Balarāma's signature color is blue garments, contrasted with Kṛṣṇa's yellow. Iconography: Balarāma is fair-skinned with blue clothes; Kṛṣṇa is dark-skinned with yellow. The garments mark the brothers.
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ambare
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a pair of garments
Locative of ambara (cloth, sky — same word). Dual-implied. Gauḍīyas note the pun: His clothing is also His sky — Bhagavān is wrapped in His own atmosphere.
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kāntiḥ
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Goddess Kānti
Personified beauty/radiance. The goddess named Kānti — one of Lakṣmī's aspects in some traditions. Gauḍīya reading: Balarāma's consort-aspect (also called Revatī, Vāruṇī) presents His ornaments; even His dressing is conjugal.
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srajam
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a necklace
Garland, necklace. Vaijayantī from v. 24 is replaced or complemented here. The Bhāgavatam keeps Bhagavān's neck named — Gauḍīyas: the throat is rasa-loaded, since it carries both ornament and song.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī quotes from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa to show that the goddess Kānti mentioned here is actually Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune: varuṇa-prahitā cāsmai mālām amlāna-paṅkajām samudrābhe tathā vastre nīle lakṣmīr ayacchata “Sent by Varuna, Goddess Lakṣmī then presented Him with a garland of unfading lotuses and a pair of garments colored blue like the ocean.” The great Bhāgavatam commentator Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī also quotes the following statement from Śrī Hari-vaṁśa, spoken by Goddess Lakṣmī to Lord Balarāma: jātarūpa-mayaṁ caikaṁ kuṇḍalaṁ vajra-bhūṣaṇam ādi-padmaṁ ca padmākhyaṁ divyaṁ śravaṇa-bhūṣaṇam devemāṁ pratigṛhṇīṣva paurāṇīṁ bhūṣaṇa-kriyām “O Lord, please accept as divine ornaments for Your ears this single gold earring studded with diamonds and this primeval lotus called Padma. Kindly accept them, for this act of adornment is traditional.” Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī further points out that Goddess Lakṣmī is the consort of the Lord’s plenary expansion Saṅkarṣaṇa who belongs to the second vyūha.
Kanti is particular form of Laksmi. The Visnu Purana says, "Laksmi presented Balarama with a lotus garland which did not fade and a pair of garments blue like the ocean." The authorities say that she is the wife of Sankarsana in the second caturvyuha expansion.
Kānti is an expansion of Lakṣmī according to Viṣṇu Purāṇa. She is the wife of Saṅkarṣaṇa of the second vyūha.
- What 'garment' or 'ornament' do I have to offer Kṛṣṇa today?
- Where does my creative life serve as worship?
When the play is done, the goddess of beauty herself brings the dressing-room: blue silks, gold, a necklace. The cosmos has stage-hands not only for entry (v. 22) but for exit; Bhagavān is robed back into His royal form by personifications.
My note
Source: vedabase.io