Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.45.37
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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mahimānam adbhutam
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amazing greatness
Mahimā = glory; adbhuta = wondrous. Sāndīpani has not been told who His students are; he has inferred from their conduct alone. Gauḍīyas note: bhāva-laden behavior leaks divinity even where it is being hidden.
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ati - mānuṣīm matim
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intelligence beyond human capacity
Ati-mānuṣī = supra-human. Sāndīpani crosses the threshold the verse 31 (gūhamānau) had built: the disguise has finally been seen through, but through love, not through claim.
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sammantrya patnyā
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after consulting with his wife
Sam + √mantr — to take counsel. The dakṣiṇā is decided jointly by husband and wife — Vedic gṛhastha pattern. The grief is the family's, the asking is the family's.
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mahā - arṇave mṛtam
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who had died in the great ocean
Mahā-arṇava = great ocean; mṛta = dead. The grief is named with brutal clarity. Sāndīpani's wound has been carried throughout the gurukula years.
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prabhāse
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at (the holy place) Prabhāsa
Prabhāsa = a famous tīrtha on the coast of Saurāṣṭra, near where Kṛṣṇa Himself will eventually wind up His pastimes (SB 11). The geography is loaded with future.
According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī, the child was captured by the conchshell demon while playing at the Mahā-śiva-kṣetra.
At the great pilgrimage place of Siva, Prabhasa, his son, while playing in the water was swallowed by Sankhasura.
The child was swallowed by the demon while playing in the water when he went on pilgrimage to the great tīrtha of Śiva with his parents.
The intelligent brāhmaṇa (dvijaḥ) saw the astonishing greatness of the two boys, who in a very short time could absorb unlimited knowledge, which he thought (matim) was beyond human ability. Or he saw their greatness and their intelligence endowed with great qualities. He consulted with his wife because of wondering what to request, or because he had affection for her. Their son while playing in the water when they went their on pilgrimage had been swallowed by Śaṅkhāsura. The word ha indicates joy because the Lord would show his greatness in surpassing death and prārabdha-karma. O king! Śukadeva calls out in astonishment at the request. Or rājan means the brāhmaṇa shone.
Sāndīpani, having watched both students closely, identifies their superhuman quality — ati-mānuṣīm matim — and, after consulting his wife, asks for what no other guru could ask: bring back our child who died in the ocean at Prabhāsa. The guru-dakṣiṇā becomes a son-back-from-death — vātsalya's deepest grief made into bhakti's most exquisite test.
My note
Source: vedabase.io