Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.18.6
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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agādha-toya
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of unfathomable water
A+gādha (not-fathomable) + toya (water). Vraja's rivers are not measured. Gauḍīya commentators note that even physical descriptions of Vraja resist measurement — the dhāma overflows its category.
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caṇḍa-aṁśu-karāḥ
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the rays (of the sun whose) rays are fierce
Caṇḍa (fierce) + aṁśu (ray) + kara (maker/ray). The sun is named only by its fierceness — and even so, named only to be defeated by Vraja's soaked earth.
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viṣa-ulbaṇāḥ
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fierce like poison
Viṣa (poison) + ulbaṇa (intense). The sun's rays elsewhere are poisonous to the green of the world; in Vraja the green is unkillable. A quiet rejoinder to the Kāliya-viṣa motif that runs through this canto.
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bhuvaḥ-rasam
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the sap of the earth
Bhū (earth) + rasa (juice, essence). The word rasa is doing double duty — earthly sap and devotional taste. In Vraja the rasa of the earth is itself a participant in the līlā.
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śādvalitam
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the greenness
From śādvala — greensward. The grass that survives the poison-sun is the same grass on which Kṛṣṇa later sits to take His midday meal with the sakhās. The chapter is laying the picnic-cloth.
One reason for absence of the heat of the sun was mentioned previously: the tall trees giving shade. This verse mentions another reason. The sun could not dry up the mud (purisyah) on the bank of the deep flowing rivers mixed with the green grass.
Why is the grass green? Since the water is deep, the river always creates waves and tends to be broad. Purīṣyāḥ is a feminine form of purīṣa (mud) following Pāṇini 4.1.42. Because the many banks, and because the waves touched the shores of the deep lakes, the fierce rays of the sun could remove the muddy earth’s moisture, which produced grass. Or, because the banks are made muddy by the waves touching the shores of the deep lakes, the fierce rays of the sun could remove the earth’s moisture, with grass. The word samantataḥ (everywhere) should be understood for second part of the verse as well (the banks were everywhere and the damp earth was everywhere). This happens throughout Vṛndāvana because the lakes are plentiful.
The rivers wet the banks deeply enough that the sun's poison-rays cannot drink the green dry — bhakti soaks the heart deeply enough that the heat of saṁsāra cannot evaporate one's taste. The defence is not a shield against the sun; it is saturation from below.
My note
Source: vedabase.io