Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.23.2
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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bhagavān
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the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Defined in Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47 as one possessing all six opulences in full. The verse keeps this title even as He moves to feed cowherd boys — aiśvarya never leaves Kṛṣṇa, even when mādhurya covers it.
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devakī-sutaḥ
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the son of Devakī
Compound: devakī (Devakī) + sutaḥ (son). Naming Him by His birth-mother in a Vraja chapter is unusual; it signals that this episode reveals His Viṣṇu-tattva even while He plays among cows.
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bhaktāyāḥ
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His devotees (feminine)
Feminine plural — already declaring the wives bhaktas before they have done a single visible act. Their devotion is internal, prior, and recognized by Kṛṣṇa Himself before the world sees it.
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vipra-bhāryāyāḥ
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the wives of the brāhmaṇas
Compound: vipra (brāhmaṇa) + bhāryāyāḥ (wives). Note the social location — householders, women, married, bound by domestic dharma — and yet they are the chapter's bhakti exemplars. Gauḍīyas read this as proof that bhakti's adhikāra is interior, not sociological.
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prasīdan
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desiring to satisfy
Present participle of pra + √sad. Kṛṣṇa's own motive is named: He moves in order to please His devotees. The boys think they are the askers; Kṛṣṇa is already the asker, asking on their behalf.
Wives is in the singular form signifying a class. In order to give mercy (prasidan) to the wives of the brahmanas, he spoke. Some say that the singular is used to indicate one particular wife who would attain the tenth stage of prema. Krsna wanted to show her mercy and was lamenting on her behalf. Prasida has two meanings, giving mercy and lamenting.
Kṛṣṇa, endowed with all powers (bhagavān), then spoke in order to give mercy to the wives of the brāhmaṇas. The phrase is in the singular to represent a group of one type. For a long time they had rati for the Lord (bhaktāyāḥ). The boys first asked the husbands, in order to show the glory of their wives. “How did their devotion arise?” He was the lord of the universe (jagad-īśvaraḥ)-- he who shows sweetness and power in the universe. How could devotion not arise in those women who had very soft hearts? Another version has devakī-sutaḥ.
A king receiving a petition from his children sees behind the words to the queens in the inner chamber whom he had already intended to honor today. Kṛṣṇa accepts the boys' request, but His real aim is the brāhmaṇa wives whose hearts He has already chosen.
My note
Source: vedabase.io