Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.83.28
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kala - nūpurābhyām
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having sweetly sounding ankle-bells
Kala (gentle, melodic) + nūpura (anklet) + dual. The doubled instrumental — both feet sounding. Gauḍīya kīrtana repeatedly uses nūpura imagery for Rādhārāṇī's approach; here it is Lakṣmaṇā but the rasa-vocabulary is identical.
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kanaka - ujjvala - ratna - mālām
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a necklace brilliant with gold and jewels
Kanaka (gold) + ujjvala (brilliant) + ratna (jewel) + mālā (garland). The mālā she will place around Kṛṣṇa's neck in the next verse. The garland is the active instrument of choosing — Gauḍīya wedding-imagery's central object.
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kauśika - agrye
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in the finest silk
Kauśika (silk) + agrya (foremost). Silk fabrics held first place among Vedic textiles. The detail places her in the highest bridal register — not so the listener admires the dress, but so that the dress, garland, and Lord's neck all align.
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sa - vrīḍa - hāsa
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with a shy smile
Sa (with) + vrīḍā (shyness, modesty) + hāsa (smile). Vrīḍā is one of the eight sāttvika-bhāvas in Gauḍīya rasa-theory — bashfulness as a sign of approaching prema. The smile breaking through the shyness is the bhāva itself in motion.
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kavarī - dhṛta - srak
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(her) hair-braid bearing a flower-wreath
Kavarī (braid) + dhṛta (held) + srak (wreath). The wreath in the hair is the bride's traditional Vedic ornament. Gauḍīya iconography of Rādhā always includes the kavarī — the long braid that Kṛṣṇa Himself sometimes plaits.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī states that Śrī Lakṣmaṇā was so excited by remembering how she obtained the Supreme Lord that she forgot her natural shyness and went on to describe her own triumph.
She describes how her beauty became incomparable at that time due to her extreme joy. Her cheeks were surrounded with large locks of hair and lit by her earrings.
I held with great respect (pra—gṛhya) in my hands a garland. I wore new silk cloth for the wedding. I was shy in the assembly. A smile appeared on my face because of satisfaction caused by inner bliss. This was the nature of her face, not something created at that moment.
I held with great respect (pra—gṛhya) a garland in my hands. I wore new silk cloth for the wedding. She smiled shyly in joy, having attained her desire or because special love for the Lord arose. The flowers in her hair increased her beauty.
- Where does false modesty prevent me from telling my own story?
- What joyful moment of mine deserves telling?
Now the bride enters. Anklets soft, silk new, jewelled necklace in hand, hair garlanded, smile shy — the verse is one long ornamental sweep so the listener can see her walking. Lakṣmaṇā paints herself the way a Gauḍīya kīrtanīyā paints Rādhā entering Yāvaṭa: every detail of dress, every step. Bhakti notices the surface because the surface is what touches the Lord.
My note
Source: vedabase.io