Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.83.27
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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dundubhayaḥ
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kettledrums
Dundubhi — the celestial drum sounded at all great Vedic moments: gods' victories, royal coronations, the Lord's līlās. The drum's sound from divi establishes the deva-loka's blessing on the union.
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jaya - śabda
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the sound 'victory'
Jaya (victory) + śabda (sound). The single Sanskrit cry that runs through the entire Bhāgavatam at moments of līlā: jaya, jaya. Gauḍīya kīrtana inherits this; every saṅkīrtana is an echo of dvāpara's jaya-śabda.
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kusuma - āsārān
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torrents of flowers
Kusuma (flower) + āsāra (downpour). The standard celestial response — Brahmā showering flowers when Kṛṣṇa lifts Govardhana, the gods showering flowers at Rāma's coronation. Heaven has no other gift it can offer: it gives flowers.
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harṣa - vihvalāḥ
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overwhelmed with joy
Harṣa (joy) + vihvala (overwhelmed). The gods themselves are tossed by their own ānanda. Gauḍīya rasa-theory: even demigods experience secondary bhāva at the Lord's victories, though their stable rasa is reverence.
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devāḥ
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demigods
Deva — the heavenly administrators. They do not marry Lakṣmaṇā themselves (verse 17: she rejected the loka-pās), but they bless the bride who saw past them to Mukunda. Their flower-rain is the higher beings' acknowledgement that the Lord's bride chose rightly.
Remembering her joy on that occasion she describes her choosing Krsna at that time in two verses. She entered with feet adorned with anklets which jingled, wearing two pieces of silk cloth tied by a belt.
Simultaneously people on earth shouted “Victory!” and devatās in the sky sounded drums.
The devatās shouted “Jaya jaya” on earth released flowers. Or on earth the drums sounded and people shouted “Jaya jaya.”
- What recent victory of mine deserves wider rejoicing than I have allowed?
- How could I let the multiple worlds' applause in?
The cosmos itself recognizes the moment: drums sound in heaven, the people shout victory below, demigods empty their petal-baskets. The same celestial response that greets every great līlā — the gopīs' first dance, Govardhana lifted, the demons slain — pours down here too. The marriage is being ratified above before the bride has even garlanded.
My note
Source: vedabase.io