Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.39.35
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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yadu - uttamaḥ
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the best of the Yadus
Yadu-uttama = supreme among the Yadu dynasty. The epithet is used here as Kṛṣṇa formally takes up His Yadava identity — about to walk into Mathurā as the Yadu prince He was born to be.
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sāntvayām āsa
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consoled (them)
Periphrastic perfect of √sāntv — to soothe. The verse's central action: He consoles. The whole chapter's heart pivots on this one verb because it answers v.26's charge of anāśvāsya (un-consoling).
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sa - premaiḥ
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with loving / affectionate (words)
Sa-prema = 'with prema.' The Bhāgavata explicitly notes that His message is steeped in prema — not formal courtesy. Gauḍīyas read this as Bhagavān's pledge that the gopīs' love is fully reciprocated even at the moment of apparent abandonment.
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āyāsye iti
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'I shall come'
Future first-person of ā + √yā — 'I will come (back).' The most-meditated promise in Gauḍīya bhakti. Caitanya Mahāprabhu often spoke this line aloud in viraha; Gosvāmīs have written tomes on its meaning.
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dautyakaiḥ
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by messages / through a messenger
Dautyaka = the office of dūta. Kṛṣṇa speaks through an intermediary — He cannot Himself stop the chariot. The dūta-mode foreshadows Uddhava's mission seven chapters later, when He will again use a messenger to comfort the gopīs.
Seeing the pain of the gopis, the best of the yadus, who was now inclined to protect the yadus, consoled them by sending through messengers thousands of assurances to increase their faith, so that they would regain full consciousness (dautyakaih plural form). Ka is added to indicate that the messages were full of compassion. "I will return quickly. O gopis! Like you , I am also subject to the worst broken heart. I am going to Mathura by maintaining life through the licking with the tongue of my intelligence your laughing sweet glances of honey rare to the three worlds. If I do not return the day after tomorrow, then you and I will both not be able to maintain our lives. But if I live because of a long life span or because of expectations of reunion, this life will be more suffering than a million deaths." Such were his words mixed with the nectar of prema.
As he departed, that best of the Yadus saw how the gopīs were lamenting, and thus he consoled them by sending messengers with this loving promise: “I will return.” Some say that in the information delivered by the messengers, he said, “I will come in my other forms (sphūrti), not personally.” This is not true. The word iti at the end of the statement āyāsya iti does not indicate that. The gopīs would also be extremely disturbed if such a message came saying that he would return as a sphūrti only. This idea is refuted when Uddhava delivers his message: āgamiṣyaty adīrgheṇa kālena vrajam acyutaḥ priyaṁ vidhāsyate pitror bhagavān sātvatāṁ patiḥ Infallible Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of the devotees, will soon return to Vraja to satisfy his parents. SB 10.46.34 This verse says that he sent words through many messengers (dautyakaiḥ), in secret, filled with prema and with promises, and with no deceit. The phrase best of the Yadus (yadūttamaḥ) indicates that Kṛṣṇa was going to give protection to the Yadus. The future tense is used (āyāsye) to indicate the present or very near future (I am coming). This would happen after he killed Dantavakra as mentioned in Padma Purāṇa, Uttara-khaṇḍa. This will be quoted later.
As the Lord was departing, or related to his departure, seeing the gopīs were in pain in an indescribable way, by various means, with prema (sa-premaiḥ), he who had appeared among the Yadus to display unlimited qualities like mercy, who was capable in this way, consoled them. Or saying “I am going in order to protect the Yadus, as the best of the Yadu dynasty, but after doing that I will return,” he consoled them. Padma Purāṇa says that he did return after killing Dantavakra, to make his words true.
Like a soldier who, riding away to the battlefront, sends a runner back to his beloved with a single promise — 'I will return' — Kṛṣṇa, the best of Yadus, glimpsing the gopīs' anguish, sends them a messenger with the loving pledge: āyāsye, 'I will come.' That two-syllable promise sustains them for the rest of Canto 10.
Kṛṣṇa's promise here — 'I will return' (āyāsye) — is the chapter's most quoted line in Gauḍīya literature. Kṛṣṇa never returned to Vraja in the literal sense after this departure (SB 10–11 record His Mathurā and Dvārakā līlās exclusively).
Gauḍīya ācāryas resolve this by saying the promise was fulfilled in the eternal Goloka-līlā, not the prakaṭa-līlā. Sanātana Gosvāmī in Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta and Viśvanātha Cakravartī write that He never actually leaves Vraja — His vraja-līlā continues without break in the unmanifest, and the chariot here is for the eyes of Mathurā only.
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