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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.42.7

పద్‌భ్యామాక్రమ్య ప్రపదే ద్‌వ్యఙ్గుల్యుత్తానపాణినా । ప్రగృహ్య చిబుకేఽధ్యాత్మముదనీనమదచ్యుత: ॥ ౭ ॥
padbhyām ākramya prapade
[padbhyaam aakramya prapade]
dry-aṅguly-uttāna-pāṇinā
[dry-anguly-uttaana-paaninaa]
pragṛhya cibuke ’dhyātmam
[pragrihya chibuke ’dhyaatmam]
udanīnamad acyutaḥ
[udaneenamad achyutah]
padbhyām — with both His feet ākramya — pressing down prapade — on her toes dvi — having two aṅguli — fingers uttāna — pointing upwards pāṇinā — with His hands pragṛhya — taking hold of cibuke — her chin adhyātmam — her body udanīnamat — He raised acyutaḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
padbhyām ākramya prapade
padbhyām
with both His feet
ākramya
pressing down
prapade
on her toes
dvi
having two
dry-aṅguly-uttāna-pāṇinā
aṅguli
fingers
uttāna
pointing upwards
pāṇinā
with His hands
pragṛhya cibuke ’dhyātmam
pragṛhya
taking hold of
cibuke
her chin
udanīnamad acyutaḥ
adhyātmam
her body
udanīnamat
He raised
acyutaḥ
Lord Kṛṣṇa .
  • padbhyām — with both His feet
    Instrumental dual of pad. Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet are pressing on her toes. Gauḍīya devotion centers on caraṇāravinda — here the very feet that Lakṣmī massages are pressing a maidservant's toes. The hierarchy of mercy is inverted.
  • prapade — on her toes
    Locative of prapada. The contact point is the lowest — the toes. Gauḍīya commentators read this as the Lord beginning from the most distant, most peripheral point of the jīva and lifting from there.
  • acyutaḥ — the infallible one
    From a + √cyu — never falling. The Bhāgavata names Him Acyuta precisely at the moment He acts on Kubjā: His act cannot fail. Kubjā's transformation is guaranteed not by her merit but by His name.
  • uttāna — pointing upwards
    From ud + √tan. His two fingers point up — the gesture of lifting. Gauḍīya reading: the Lord's mudrā is always uttāna, always upward; the jīva's natural drift is downward, and bhakti is the upward correction.
  • udanīnamat — He raised, He bent upward
    Imperfect causative of ud + √nam. To make-bend-upward. The same root nam used for praṇāma is here applied to Kṛṣṇa straightening Kubjā — a beautiful Bhāgavata wordplay: He who is offered praṇāma is now Himself bending a soul into a new posture.
Pressing down on her toes with both His feet, Lord Acyuta placed one upward-pointing finger of each hand under her chin and straightened up her body.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Pressing down on her toes with both His feet, Lord Acyuta placed one upward-pointing finger of each hand under her chin and straightened up her body.
Commentary

Pressing down on the front of her feet with his two feet, he held her chin with two upward pointing fingers and pulled her body up.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Kṛṣṇa was skillful at grasping, since that was suitable for his wrestling pastime. Taking her chin with the index and middle fingers of his right hand facing upward and supporting her back with his left hand he pulled up her body (adhyātman-- that which depends on the soul), whose crooked nature she had to endure as long as she lived because of unavoidable prārabdha-karmas. He was fixed in performing this special pastime (acyutaḥ), and thus he grasped her chin especially (pragṛhya), since he could have done all of this just by his desire, without touching her.

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Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Svadhyaya (Self-study & Scripture Study)Samata (Equanimity / Even-mindedness)Nishkama Karma (Selfless Action)
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Jiva

A blacksmith's apprentice could never have straightened that twisted bar; the master needs only one motion — feet on the base, two fingers under the chin. The leverage of the Lord is His mere will; everything else is just the visible part of the gesture.

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