Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.82.17
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pṛthā
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Kuntī (Pṛthā)
Her given name — Pṛthā, daughter of Śūrasena, sister of Vasudeva. Gauḍīyas honour her as one of the foremost devotees of the canto, whose prayer in SB 1.8 inaugurates the Bhāgavatam's bhakti-theology after the war.
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mukundam
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Lord Kṛṣṇa (giver of liberation)
From mud (joy, liberation) + da (giver). One of Kṛṣṇa's thousand names that gives away the gift. Kuntī sees Him here as the giver of mukti — but as her brother's son first, as Bhagavān second. Vātsalya-mixed-with-aiśvarya.
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jahau
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she gave up her sorrow
Phrase: jahau (aorist of √hā, abandoned) + śucaḥ (sorrow, accusative). The same phrase will reappear in verse 35 for Yaśodā. Gauḍīyas read it as bhakti's effect — śoka does not survive contact with Kṛṣṇa-and-His-people.
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saṅkathayā
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while talking
Instrumental of saṅkathā — collective conversation. The means by which sorrow was lifted: kathā, talk, not silence. Vaiṣṇavism is verbal — śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ are the first two of the nine limbs.
Even the constant anxiety of a pure devotee, apparently just the opposite of the impersonalists’ śānti, can be an exalted manifestation of love of God, as exemplified by Śrīmatī Kuntīdevī, the aunt of Lord Kṛṣṇa and mother of the Pāṇḍavas.
The relationship between Kuntī and Vasudeva is described in five verses. Brothers were Vasudeva and others. Sisters were Śrutadevī and others. His sons were Balarāma, Gada and Santardana and others. Parents were Śura and his wife Bhojyā. Brothers’ wives were Śrīdevī and others. She gave up the sorrow of not seeing them for so long. Or it can mean she shed tears ( sucaḥ jahau).
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- What sorrow of mine might be eased by simply being with my people?
- Whom have I been avoiding when I most need them?
A grief that has held a heart for years can be lifted in one afternoon, if the right people gather around it. Kuntī's sorrow does not require analysis or therapy — only the faces of her family and the presence of Mukunda.
Kuntī's biography is a catalogue of catastrophes: widowhood, the lākṣā-gṛha fire, thirteen years in forest exile with five sons, Draupadī's disrobing, the deaths of grandchildren in the war. Every śloka of her prayer (SB 1.8) speaks from inside that grief.
Yet the moment she sees her brothers, parents, and Mukunda together at Kurukṣetra, the text says jahau śucaḥ — she gave up her sorrow. Gauḍīyas read this as the practical force of bhagavad-darśana plus bhakta-saṅga: not sorrow suppressed, but sorrow dissolved by the only context where it never mattered.
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Source: vedabase.io