Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.14.58
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pada-pallava-plavam
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the boat of (His) lotus-bud feet
Compound: pada (foot) + pallava (bud/desire-tree) + plava (boat). Three deep image: feet ARE the boat. Same pallava as verse 30 — Brahmā's vocabulary is consistent. Sanātana Gosvāmī unpacks pallava as both bud and desire-fulfilling tree.
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puṇya-yaśaḥ-mura-areḥ
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of Murāri, of pure fame
Compound: puṇya (pure) + yaśas (fame) + mura-ari (enemy of Mura). Kṛṣṇa as Murāri — slayer of the Mura demon. The puṇya-yaśas formula: hearing His fame is itself purificatory, the Bhāgavata's standard claim.
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bhava-ambudhiḥ
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the ocean of material existence
Compound: bhava (becoming) + ambudhi (ocean). The standard Vaiṣṇava metaphor. The whole cosmos as ocean — the same image Caitanya repeated in CC 6 alongside this verse.
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vatsa-padam
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(like) a calf's hoofprint
Compound: vatsa (calf) + pada (foot). The chapter has used vatsa for calves (Vraja's calves), pada for feet. Here both: the cosmos shrinks to a calf-foot's print. The Bhāgavatam's poetic mathematics.
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param padam
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the supreme abode
Phrase: param (supreme) + pada (abode). Vaikuṇṭha. Not impersonal liberation but a place — and not just a place but a Person's place. The Gauḍīya goal: Goloka Vṛndāvana, the topmost loka inside Vaikuṇṭha.
This translation is taken from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s commentary on the Bhagavad-gītā As It Is , Chapter Two, text 51. According to Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī, this verse summarizes the knowledge presented in this section of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet are described as pallava, flower buds, because they are most tender and of a pinkish hue. According to Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, the word pallava also indicates that Lord Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet are just like desire trees, which can fulfill all the desires of the Lord’s pure devotees. Even exalted devotees like Śrī Nārada, who are themselves the great shelter for the conditioned souls in this universe, personally take shelter of the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Thus it is natural that when Lord Kṛṣṇa manifested Himself as all the young boys and calves of Vṛndāvana, their parents were more attracted to them than previously. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of all pleasure and, being all-attractive, the ultimate object of everyone’s love.
Though he is the giver prema by his nature, Kṛṣṇa gave Agha and other demons filled with sin the highest goal of liberation. Awarding to others by their knowledge of his sweetness qualities which award liberation, he awards the highest result to those who take shelter of his lotus feet, such as Brahmā, because of their intense prema. Because of the bliss in surrendering to his feet, it is impossible to inquire about liberation in the past, present or future. This verse summarizes the whole topic. The Lord, the killer of Mura, the commander-in-chief of Narakāsura, is famous because of his purity, or its cause, beauty. He has qualities praised by people like me. He gave liberation to many like Agha and Naraka. Kṛṣṇa’s feet are like tender shoots, giving happiness by their qualities such as tenderness. Those feet are ultimate, but without knowing how they give pleasure, they are known as a method of crossing saṁsāra only. The tender feet indicate the cruelty of the demons in trying to kill him. The shoots are like herbs with great powers. For those who have surrendered to those feet, the ocean of saṁsāra becomes the water in a calf’s foot print because of the happiness that appears from the nature of those feet. The people do not even realize if they have crossed or not. This means that this is not their goal. According to their type of prema, they attain the abode of the Lord. That place is not this world (vipadam) since it is the place of the eternal associates (mahat-padam).
Those who surrender to the Lord easily destroy all suffering and attain Vaikuṇṭha and happiness. He is feet are describes as buds (pallava) because their softness and pink color. Or the word pallava suggests that feet are desire trees. It also means one toe of his foot. That becomes a boat. They surrender completely (samāśritāḥ) with devotion to those feet which are a boat. The feet of Kṛṣṇa (murāreḥ) are the shelter (padam) for liberated souls (mahat) or for devotees like Nārada and are famous as most auspicious (puṇyam) or supreme, by liberating even Aghāsura. Murāri refers to Kṛṣṇa, the killer of Mura, a commander of Narakāsura’s army. Or the feet, being the shelter of devotees, give pure fame (puṇya-yaśaḥ) to the devotees. Because of attaining Vaikuṇṭha (yat), the devotees have no obstacles (vipadām padam).
A great ocean drowns kingdoms — but for one who has accepted the boat of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, the same ocean shrinks to a puddle in a calf's hoofprint. The puddle is the cosmos. The boat is bhakti. Vaikuṇṭha is the dry shore; the world is the calf-print's water. Brahmā's chapter closes on the maritime metaphor that the whole Bhāgavatam will repeat.
Mahāprabhu cites SB 10.14.58 as a key verse summarizing the entire knowledge presented in this section, calling Kṛṣṇa's feet pallava (verse 30's same word — flower buds). The verse becomes one of the Gauḍīya line's most frequently quoted: bhava-ambudhi as vatsa-padam, the cosmic ocean as a calf's hoof-puddle, is the Gosvāmīs' stock image.
Sanātana Gosvāmī adds: pallava also means desire-tree — Kṛṣṇa's feet fulfill every desire of the devotee. Two horticultural meanings — bud and desire-tree — both in one foot.
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