Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.80.38
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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ambubhiḥ
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and water
Instrumental plural of ambu. The flood-waters that beat them. Gauḍīyas: the elements of saṁsāra batter the bhakta-pair, but the holding-of-hands is what is asked.
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ambu - samplave
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in the flooding
Compound: ambu + samplava (flood). Pralaya-like imagery — a cosmic-scale word for a forest flood. Gauḍīyas: the Bhāgavatam's grammar reaches for cosmic vocabulary even at small-scale events, because the small scale is the cosmic event in miniature.
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parasparam
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each other's
Same word as v.27 — recurring sakhya-marker. The chapter's central rasa-word: parasparam. Hand-to-hand, eye-to-eye, friend-to-friend.
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gṛhīta - hastāḥ
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holding hands
Compound: gṛhīta (held) + hasta (hand). The image. Gauḍīyas treat this as iconic of the sakhya-rasa: hands clasped, not as romance but as mutual unwillingness to be parted.
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āturāḥ
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distressed
Adjective: afflicted, suffering. Both of them — including the boy who is Bhagavān incognito. Gauḍīyas note: Kṛṣṇa, in His student līlā, fully participates in suffering. He does not exempt Himself.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī points out that the verb paribabhrima may be understood to be the prefix pari with either the verb bhṛ or bhram. In the case of bhram, it indicates that Kṛṣṇa and Sudāmā wandered all about, and in the case of bhṛ, which means “to carry,” it indicates that as the two young boys wandered about, they continued to carry the firewood they had secured for their spiritual master.
We wandered all around (pari babhrima). Or we carried our loads of wood around. The root can be either bhram to wander or bhr to carry. The form babhrima instead of babhrma however is vedic usage.
We wandered all around. Babhrima is used instead of babhramima as poetic license.
We were constantly (ni) afflicted by showers of water. And being helpless (āturāḥ) we got lost.
- Whose hand am I holding through their lostness right now?
- Where do I let go too soon, looking for a solution when company would suffice?
Hand in hand in the flood — the two of them, Bhagavān and bhakta, holding each other through the dark. The whole chapter's image of sakhya is condensed here: not separately surviving but jointly suffering. Mahāprabhu's parikara walks through the same forest in every age.
Caitanya-caritāmṛta and Caitanya-bhāgavata record many scenes where Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda walked together through villages, weeping, embracing, hand-clasped — the saṅkīrtana-companions in unbreakable sakhya.
Gauḍīyas read SB 10.80.38 as the seed-verse: gṛhīta-hastāḥ — the Lord and His sakhi walk hand-in-hand through every storm. The forest is dark; the hand is firm.
My note
Source: vedabase.io