Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.38
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pṛthā
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Queen Kuntī
Pṛthā — Kuntī's birth-name (daughter of Śūra). The verse uses the older, more intimate name when she sees her nephew. The Bhāgavata's lexical sensitivity: family names for family scenes.
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bhrātreyam
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brother's son
Bhrātṛ-eyam — son of one's brother. Kuntī's brother is Vasudeva. The kinship vocabulary is unusually specific; vātsalya here is grammatically precise.
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tri - bhuvana - īśvaram
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Lord of the three worlds
And in the same verse — bhrātreyam and tri-bhuvana-īśvaram. The Bhāgavata loves this double register: nephew and Lord of three worlds, embraced in the same breath. Gauḍīyas treat it as bhakti's signature paradox.
Queen Kuntī’s daughter-in-law is the famous Draupadī.
She had special affection since he was her nephew and the cause of joy for the three worlds. In expectation of seeing the Lord she had previously gone to the main palace and sat there. Then on seeing him, because of intense prema she was unable to rise from her seat, but somehow she managed to do so. She embraced him. It is later mentioned that Draupadī however was standing behind with bowed head out of great respect. She was present with Kuntī, but did not embrace Kṛṣṇa. Sabda-smṛti also agrees with this interpretation. The compound sa-snuṣā is poetic license.
- What am I modeling for those who watch how I receive Kṛṣṇa?
- Whose elder example shaped my own devotional posture?
Pṛthā rising from her couch to embrace Kṛṣṇa, with Draupadī beside her, is like a long-tended lamp whose oil is nearly spent suddenly being touched by its own original fire — the flame leaps because the source has come.
Kuntī's most famous prayer is at SB 1.8.18–43, when Kṛṣṇa is about to leave Hastināpura after the war. There she asks for calamities (vipadaḥ santu) precisely so that He will keep visiting. Beneath every Pāṇḍava embrace of Kṛṣṇa lies that same yearning — viraha is welcome only because milana keeps following it.
Here, before any of that, Kuntī simply rises and holds Him. The Bhāgavata records the heart's plain movement before it records its theology.
My note
Source: vedabase.io