Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.29
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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rāma rāma
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O Rāma, Rāma
Doubled vocative — Devakī addresses Balarāma first, as the elder. The doubled address is itself a rasa-marker: love repeats names.
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aprameya-ātman
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O immeasurable Self
Compound: a- + prameya (measurable) + ātman. Bhagavān is beyond measurement by any pramāṇa. Devakī uses the most absolute term — and then asks her absolute Lord to do the most domestic favor.
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yoga-īśvara īśvara
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Lord of all yoga-masters
Compound: yoga-īśvara (master of yoga) + īśvara (Lord). The same paired vocative as BG 11.4. Kṛṣṇa is not merely a yogi among yogis; He is the Lord of all who command yoga-śakti.
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ādi-pūruṣau
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the original Persons
Compound: ādi (original) + pūruṣa (Person, dual). The plural is significant: Devakī recognizes both Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma as ādi-puruṣa-tattva. Gauḍīyas read this as confirmation of Balarāma's status as Kṛṣṇa's first plenary expansion.
She addresses Balarāma first and his name is repeated out of respect because he is elder and out of respect because he is the son of a co-wife (Rohiṇī). He is unlimited since he by nature is beyond measure. He has greater, more inconceivable powers than the Kumāras and other great yogīs. This is because both of them are Lords of Brahmā and other controllers of the universe. Thus they are the original puruṣas.
O Balarāma with unrestricted intelligence (aprameyātman)! O Kṛṣṇa with great, inconceivable powers (yogeśvareśvara)! You were capable of deliver your guru’s son. Or she says this to make her prayer perfect. Balarāma is addressed twice to indicate he was qualified as the elder brother. You are the Lord of Brahmā and others, or the puruṣāvatāras since you are the original Lords.
- Whose hidden divinity in my life have I begun to address as God?
- What can I ask of someone close to me that only God could grant?
A mother who has been told her sons are gods now speaks to Them as gods — but the sentence she will arrive at is still 'please bring me my babies.' Aprameya-ātman is the address; the request is vātsalya. Both registers are true; both are spoken in one breath.
My note
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