Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.39.24
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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abalāḥ grāmyāḥ
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(we) helpless village-women
Abalā = without strength; grāmya = of the village. Self-deprecation as rasa-tool: by calling themselves powerless rustics they emphasize the asymmetry — and intensify the longing that is their actual power.
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madhu - mañju - bhāṣitaiḥ
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by honey-sweet pleasing words
Triple-compound: honey + pleasant + speech. The Mathurā women's threat is rhetorical — sweet talk, not beauty. Gauḍīyas hold that Kṛṣṇa is conquered by speech-of-love, never by physical advantage.
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vibhramaiḥ
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by alluring gestures / coquetries
Vibhrama = the practiced flutters of court-women, listed in classical rasa-śāstra (Bharata's Nāṭya-śāstra). The gopīs fear precisely the polished arts they have never cultivated.
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manasvī
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thoughtful / intelligent
They admit He is manasvī — intelligent — but pair it with paravān (controlled by others). The intellect they trust is the very faculty that may be captured by city-charm.
"Perhaps he will stay there a few days, and then being attracted by our love, will be brought back by his parents." "O foolish woman! You do not know the truth. Listen. Though obedient to his parents, being overwhelmed by the sweet words of the women of Mathura, how will he return to us? Why do you give useless hope to the minds of us village women who are devoid of beauty, arts and strength (abalah)?’ "But though that is so, you should have faith that he will return, intelligently remembering his parents and sense of duty." "But he will become bewildered by their amorous suggestive actions and shy smiles, and forget all of that."
He will completely forget everything (bhraman) because of the women of Mathurā. Though he is obedient to his parents (para-vān) he will fall under their control (gṛhīta-cittaḥ). Or, because he falls under their control (gṛhīta-cittaḥ) he will be dependent on those women (para-vān). mathurāṁ prāpya govindaḥ kathaṁ gokulam eṣyati / nagara-strī-kalālāpa-madhu śrotreṇa pāsyati // vilāsi-vākya-pāneṣu nāgarīṇāṁ kṛtāspadam / cittam asya kathaṁ bhūyo grāmya-gopīṣu yāsyati // grāmyo harir ayaṁ tāsāṁ vilāsa-nigaḍair yutaḥ / bhavatīnāṁ punaḥ pārśvaṁ kayā yuktyā sameṣyati // If Govinda goes to Mathurā, why will he return to Gokula? He will drink the honey of the city women’s arts and speech with his hears. How will his heart, relishing their words and gestures, taking shelter of them, return to rustic gopīs? This village boy will be bound by the chains of their flirting. By what logic will he return to you women of Gokula? Viṣṇu Purāṇa This shows that falling under their control (gṛhīta-cittaḥ) he will be dependent on those women (para-vān).
Like a country boy who has been sent to the king's court and is fed on the city ladies' honey-words and shy smiles — how will he ever come back to the rough cowherd-girls in their plain saris? The gopīs cast themselves as unsophisticated and Mathurā's women as the deadly polish.
My note
Source: vedabase.io