Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.57
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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mṛta-āgamana-nirgamam
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the coming and going of the dead
Compound: mṛta (dead) + āgamana (arrival) + nirgama (departure). The whole arc compressed into a single noun. The Bhāgavatam reports Devakī's perception phenomenologically — what she actually saw.
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māyām kṛṣṇasya racitām
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the illusion arranged by Kṛṣṇa
Phrase: māyā + kṛṣṇa + racita (composed, arranged). Devakī correctly identifies the agent. The māyā is Yoga-māyā, not bewilderment-māyā — and Devakī recognizes its author.
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vismitā
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amazed
Past participle of vi + √smi, 'to smile out in wonder'. Vismaya — wonder — is one of the eight permanent sthāyī-bhāvas of rasa-śāstra. Devakī's response is properly rasic: not grief, not joy alone, but wonder at the entire arrangement.
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su-vismitā
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greatly amazed
Intensified vismita. The same root as in verse 27 (su-vismitā about Sāndīpani's son). The chapter opens and closes with Devakī's wonder — a deliberate frame.
The Lord had her continue her affection for him. That is explained in this verse. She saw her departed sons come and then go. Agamana-nirgamam may also be considered a dvandva compound in the singular as in ūkālo 'j-jhrasva-dīrgha-plutaḥ. (Pāṇini 1.2.27) She considered their birth and coming from Sutala to have been produced by Kṛṣṇa by māyā in order to cheat Kaṁsa. It was a show of his affection for her. They had entered Devakī as embryos with their previous bodies, but they did not come out of Devakī with those forms. After their death by Kaṁsa, they again assumed those devatā forms. That is understood from these verses.
She considered this a special śakti (māyām) shown by Kṛṣṇa alone. Or she considered it mercy (māyām) created by Kṛṣṇa. O king, this should be understood to be special mercy of the Lord to his mother, and to his brothers, and in relation to this, to Bali.
- What recent gift was also a temporary visit — and can I bless both arrival and departure?
- Where do I cling to gifts past their appointed season?
A magic show ends and the magician's mother realizes the whole performance was for her. Sons appear from death, vanish into heaven, and the mother sits stunned — māyāṁ kṛṣṇasya racitām. She concludes that her own son is the playwright of her own grief and joy.
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Source: vedabase.io