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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.46.27

శ్రీశుక ఉవాచ ఇతి సంస్మృత్య సంస్మృత్య నన్ద: కృష్ణానురక్తధీ: । అత్యుత్కణ్ఠోఽభవత్తూష్ణీం ప్రేమప్రసరవిహ్వల: ॥ ౨౭ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca
[shree-shuka uvaacha]
iti saṁsmṛtya saṁsmṛtya
[iti samsmritya samsmritya]
nandaḥ kṛṣṇānurakta-dhīḥ
[nandah krishnaanurakta-dheeh]
aty-utkaṇṭho ’bhavat tūṣṇīṁ
[aty-utkantho ’bhavat tooshneem]
prema-prasara-vihvalaḥ
[prema-prasara-vihvalah]
śrī - śukaḥ uvāca — Śukadeva Gosvāmī said iti — thus saṁsmṛtya saṁsmṛtya — intensely and repeatedly remembering nandaḥ — Nanda Mahārāja kṛṣṇa — to Kṛṣṇa anurakta — completely attracted dhīḥ — whose mind ati — extremely utkaṇṭhaḥ — anxious abhavat — he became tūṣṇīm — silent prema — of his pure love prasara — by the force vihvalaḥ — overcome .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
śrī-śuka uvāca
śrī - śukaḥ uvāca
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said
iti saṁsmṛtya saṁsmṛtya
iti
thus
saṁsmṛtya saṁsmṛtya
intensely and repeatedly remembering
nandaḥ kṛṣṇānurakta-dhīḥ
nandaḥ
Nanda Mahārāja
kṛṣṇa
to Kṛṣṇa
anurakta
completely attracted
dhīḥ
whose mind
aty-utkaṇṭho ’bhavat tūṣṇīṁ
ati
extremely
utkaṇṭhaḥ
anxious
abhavat
he became
tūṣṇīm
silent
prema-prasara-vihvalaḥ
prema
of his pure love
prasara
by the force
vihvalaḥ
overcome .
  • saṁsmṛtya saṁsmṛtya — intensely and repeatedly remembering
    Reduplication of saṁ-√smṛ. Sanskrit's iterative — 'remembering and remembering.' Gauḍīya bhakti-śāstra cites such reduplications as the textual marker of continuous smaraṇa, the practice that becomes its own perfection.
  • kṛṣṇa - anurakta - dhīḥ — his mind completely attached to Kṛṣṇa
    Compound: Kṛṣṇa + anurakta (deeply attached) + dhī (intellect). The technical phrase for advanced bhāva — anurāga. Nanda has now passed from smaraṇa (an act) into anurakti (a state).
  • ati - utkaṇṭhaḥ — extremely anxious
    Compound: ati (extreme) + utkaṇṭha (longing). Same utkaṇṭha-family as gopīs' autkaṇṭhya in verse 5. Gauḍīya tīkā: vātsalya-utkaṇṭhā and mādhurya-utkaṇṭhā share one lexicon — the chapter is binding the two rasas at the level of vocabulary.
  • tūṣṇīm — silent
    Adverb of silence. The narrative gear-change: Nanda's voice stops. Gauḍīya kāvya treats tūṣṇī-mauna at the height of bhāva as a separate sāttvika-symptom, distinct from speechlessness due to ignorance.
  • prema - prasara — the force / spreading of pure love
    Compound: prema (pure love) + prasara (overflowing, spreading). Gauḍīyas treasure this phrase: prema is not a stable possession but a prasara, a flooding-out. Vraja-prema is always too large for its vessel.
  • vihvalaḥ — overcome
    Same word the gopīs were marked with in verse 5 (vihvalāḥ). The chapter brackets Nanda's silence with the gopīs' bewilderment — two faces of vipralambha sharing one verb.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus intensely remembering Kṛṣṇa again and again, Nanda Mahārāja, his mind completely attached to the Lord, felt extreme anxiety and fell silent, overcome by the strength of his love.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus intensely remembering Kṛṣṇa again and again, Nanda Mahārāja, his mind completely attached to the Lord, felt extreme anxiety and fell silent, overcome by the strength of his love.
Commentary

His mind became attached to Krsna. By remembering the powerful aspect of Krsna, Nanda thought, "Oh, by misfortune, I have been separated from my son, who is the ocean of powerful qualities." His attachment to Krsna was such that, unlike Vasudeva, his relationship with Krsna did not weaken even in appreciating Krnsa’s great powers as the Lord, for his attraction to Krsna could not be restricted by that. With his mind attracted to Krsna in this way, he became helplessly under the sway of paternal affection (prema prasara vihvala). In the presence of the supreme prema of Nanda, who like Agastya, swallowed the whole ocean, what is the significance of the ocean of aisvarya?

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

His mind spontaneously became attracted to Kṛṣṇa. Again and again (sam) Nanda remembered the sweetness and how Kṛṣṇa, full of power, protected him. Then the force of prema manifested as tears and choked throat and thus he became silent. He could not speak. Saṁsmṛtya is repeated to show that he could not stop remembering Kṛṣṇa.

Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Atma Nigraha (Self-control)Karuna (Kindness / Compassion)
Related verses

After the long recitation, Nanda's words fail. The dam built by speech cracks, and prema floods through — he can only sit silent, body shaking, mind fixed on a son he has just spent twelve verses naming. The Bhāgavatam stages the most eloquent silence in Vraja-vātsalya literature.

Bhīṣma falling silent before Kṛṣṇa

On the arrow-bed at Kurukṣetra, after Bhīṣma had spoken his long instructions to Yudhiṣṭhira, his last act was to gaze at Kṛṣṇa and fall silent, eyes streaming (SB 1.9.42-44). Speech ended; bhāva took over.

Gauḍīyas pair Bhīṣma's tūṣṇīṁ with Nanda's tūṣṇīm here. Two different rasas — śānta-tinged and vātsalya — share one grammar: when prema reaches its limit, the verb of silence finishes the sentence speech began.

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