Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.75.32
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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lakṣmīḥ
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the opulences
Plural. Many lakṣmīs — many forms of beauty and wealth. Gauḍīyas hear the deeper resonance: Lakṣmī herself attends the bhakta's house. Duryodhana sees her plural; he does not see Whom she attends.
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viśva-sṛjā
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by the cosmic manufacturer
Compound: viśva (universe) + sṛj (creator). Maya Dānava is called this by hyperbole. The chapter is playing with creator-language — the real creator is Kṛṣṇa, who sits in the same hall.
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drupada-rāja-sutā
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the daughter of King Drupada (Draupadī)
Compound: Drupada-rāja + sutā. Draupadī, daughter of the fire — born from yajña, married to dharma. Now she serves; the man watching cannot bear that she serves THEM and not him.
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upatasthe
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she served
Perfect middle of upa-√sthā — 'attended upon.' Draupadī personally serves her husbands (patīn) in the Maya-Sabhā. The Vaiṣṇava-dharma frame holds the unusual sociology together. Duryodhana cannot hold it; his gaze fractures into possession.
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viṣakta
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attached
Past participle of vi-√sañj (to cling, hang on). Duryodhana's hṛdaya is viṣakta — hung up on her. Gauḍīyas read viṣakta as the precise opposite of nyasta (offered, surrendered). Same fluid, opposite direction.
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kuru-rāṭ
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the king of the Kurus
Compound: Kuru + rāj. Duryodhana, the kṣatra heir. The title that should mark service marks here a sickness — kingship without Kṛṣṇa-anchor.
In the chambers were various types of treasures from the kings of humans, demons and devas. It was built by Maya. Draupadi enjoyed those opulences with her husbands in that place. Overcome with envy by those opulences, Durydhona’s heart was pained.
The grandeur of the sacrifice has been described. Now the wealth of the palace is briefly described, as the cause of Duryodhana’s grief. In the palace (yasmin) various types of wealth from kings and devatās shone brilliantly. Sma indicates certainty. This was because the palace was made by Viśvakarmā or because the hall was made by Maya (viśvasṛjā). By the construction of the city, Draupadī served her husband Yudhiṣṭhira. Citsukha’s version has patīn (husbands). She was the daughter of King Drupada. This suggests her extraordinary beauty and qualities, through her remarkable birth. His heart became filled with envy of that wealth (yasyām). Out of envy he thought of himself as the king of the Kurus (kuru-rāṭ).
- Where do attractions I have not addressed become the seed of resentment?
- What inner clarity would untangle this knot in me?
Maya Dānava built the assembly hall — and Maya Dānava's gift will mock Duryodhana in a few verses. Wealth crafted by an asura, however dazzling, has hidden trap-doors. The pearl in Yudhiṣṭhira's hand is Kṛṣṇa; the pearl in Duryodhana's eye is the wife he covets.
Maya, an asura architect, was spared from the Khāṇḍava forest's burning by Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa (Mahābhārata Ādi-parva); in gratitude he built the Sabhā for the Pāṇḍavas. The hall is therefore a literal asura-gift — beautiful but with illusion built in.
Gauḍīyas note: bhakta receives even an asura's craft and uses it for dharma; the asura's gift, however, retains its own logic. Duryodhana will meet that logic in verse 37.
My note
Source: vedabase.io