Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.39.6
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vṛjinam
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suffering / distress
Strong word for affliction. Kṛṣṇa uses it about His parents — He calls Their grief 'great suffering' (bhūri vṛjinam), refusing the cool philosophical line that 'all is His līlā.' The personalist Lord feels for His own.
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āryayoḥ
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of the two noble / venerable ones
Dual — Vasudeva and Devakī. Ārya marks them as worthy of utmost respect; Kṛṣṇa positions Himself as Their indebted son before all theological identities.
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pitroḥ
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of the (two) parents
Dual genitive. By saying 'pitroḥ' Kṛṣṇa publicly claims Vasudeva-Devakī as parents even while seated in Nanda's house — Nanda is hearing this. The two father-houses overlap without rivalry.
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bandhanam
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the imprisonment
The shackles in Kaṁsa's prison are named explicitly. Kṛṣṇa's mission is now sealed: He will go to Mathurā and break those literal bonds — and through that act break the bondage of all jīvas.
Because Kaṁsa had heard a prophecy that the eighth son of Devakī would kill him, he tried to kill all her children. For the same reason, he imprisoned her and her husband, Vasudeva.
" From me, their son, they have suffered. Though I am their son, I have caused their sons to be killed."
Because of me (asmad) there has been much suffering for my parents. The plural is used to represent Kṛṣṇa, and said out of respect. Or it can mean Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. Asmados dvayoś ca: the plural of asmad can indicate the singular or dual. (Pāṇini 1.2.59) Yad-dhetoḥ is repeated to express that he is the sole cause of their suffering and because of his deep sense of repentance.
e remembered the suffering of his parents, with himself as the cause and repents. Aho indicates lamentation. Plural is used to indicate Balarāma and others or to respect those to whom he caused suffering. Yaddhetoḥ is repeated to indicate that he was the sole cause. I am the cause. This gives a reason for going to Mathurā and giving relief to Akrūra.
Like a king who, having taken sanctuary in a poor villager's home, weeps that the villager's other sons were killed by his pursuers — Kṛṣṇa, fully sovereign, grieves as a son that His parents suffered because of Him. Bhagavān's līlā includes a real heart breaking for Devakī.
Kaṁsa, on hearing the disembodied voice predict that Devakī's eighth child would kill him, threw the couple into prison and one by one dashed her newborns against the stone (SB 10.1, 10.4). Six sons of Devakī had already died before Balarāma was transferred to Rohiṇī's womb and Kṛṣṇa to Yaśodā's.
Here, in Nanda's house, Kṛṣṇa for the first time speaks aloud of that grief. The phrase yat-hetoḥ putra-maraṇam — 'because of Me, the killing of sons' — is His own acknowledgment that His advent-līlā cost His mother her arms full of children.
My note
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