Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.41.29
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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mukha-ambujāḥ
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whose faces were like lotuses
Compound: mukha (face) + ambuja (lotus). The standard Vaiṣṇava facial-trope, used here for the Mathurā ladies. Their lotus-faces above, the lotus-feet below — Kṛṣṇa walks between two layers of lotuses.
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abhyavarṣan
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they showered
Imperfect of abhi + √vṛṣ — to rain down upon. The flower-rain (puṣpa-vṛṣṭi) is the standard Indic sign that a divine procession is in progress. Vyāsa records it without comment: Mathurā recognizes Kṛṣṇa even without theology.
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saumanasyaiḥ
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with flowers
Instrumental plural of saumanasya — flower, but literally 'good-mindedness.' The Sanskrit pun is intentional: they offered flowers and they offered the good-mind those flowers represented. Both senses are valid.
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bala-keśavau
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Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa
Dvandva: Bala + Keśava. The brothers are again named together. Gauḍīyas note: in this chapter every public act includes Balarāma; the dual-form is theologically constitutive, not stylistic.
The women began to shower flowers in the form of their smiles, or showered the flowers in the form of actions indicating their love.
The sign of disappearance of suffering is shown. Previously it was said that the women climbed on the roofs. Here it is described that they climbed to the very top of the buildings. This shows their extreme zeal. They completely (abhi) covered (varṣan) Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma with flowers since the two were together (but they fell in love with Kṛṣṇa). Or they showered both because Balarāma, being his elder brother, was identified with Kṛṣṇa. The word pramadā (women) also suggests they had strong (pra) desire (madā). They showered flowers because they no longer had fear of Kaṁsa since Balarāma manifested strength (bala) and Kṛṣṇa showed himself as the killer of Keśī (keśava). In fact no one had fear of Kaṁsa at this time. The word bala is placed first because being elder, Balarāma walked in front.
From the rooftops the women rain flowers — as if the sky itself, seeing Kṛṣṇa walk in, sent down petals. The vertical geometry inverts: heaven now sits above the city street, and the street holds the Lord whom heaven worships.
My note
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