Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.48.4
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sādhutayā
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as a saintly person, on account of his saintliness
Abstract noun in instrumental: sādhu-tā = saint-ness. Uddhava is honored not because he is Kṛṣṇa's minister but because he is a sādhu. Gauḍīyas read this as the chapter's quiet thesis: a devotee outranks every social courtesy.
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loka-ācaritāni-anuvrataḥ
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imitating the modes of human society
Compound: loka (world) + ācaritāni (customs practiced) + anuvrataḥ (following along). Kṛṣṇa's lying on the bed is līlā, not preference. The Lord performs human gestures as an actor performs a role — fully, but never confused with the role.
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abhipūjitaḥ
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duly worshiped
Past participle of abhi + √pūj. Trivakrā honored Uddhava with arcana even before her chosen seduction proceeded — kāma, brushed against bhakti, cannot help producing pūjā.
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urvyām
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on the ground
Locative of urvī (earth). The sādhu's chosen seat. The same earth that bears Bhagavān's feet is enough for His devotee — no elevated cushion required.
According to the ācāryas, Uddhava felt reverence for his Lord and thus declined to sit on an opulent seat in His presence; rather, he touched the seat with his hand and sat on the floor. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī adds that Lord Kṛṣṇa made Himself comfortable on a bed located in the inner chambers of Trivakrā’s home.
Uddhava felt that it was improper for him as Krsna’s servant to sit on a seat offered by the hand of his beloved. After touching the asana with his hand, in order to honor her offer, he then sat on the floor. Krsna then lay on a bed in an inner room.
Uddhava was similarly (tathā) welcomed properly (sādhutayā) by Kubjā. With devotion he touched the seat, and sat on the ground. Or he offered respects to it to please Kubjā. After being seated for worship, Kṛṣṇa got up and quickly sat on the bed studded with gems (mahā-dhanam) within the room. The reason is given. He acted like a human being who, entering the woman’s house, quickly sits on the bed freely for pleasure. He followed the habits of ordinary men (anuvrataḥ), since he acts like a human by his own decision. It should be understood that it was night at that time.
A saint offered the master bedroom will choose the floor; a Lord pretending to be human will lounge like a guest. Uddhava sits on the ground out of sādhu-vinaya, Kṛṣṇa stretches out on the bed loka-ācaritāni-anuvrataḥ — and between them the whole scene becomes a teaching on roles freely worn.
When Uddhava reached Vraja in SB 10.46–47, the cowherds offered him a fine seat too, and he likewise demurred, accepting the lowest place. Gauḍīya commentators note that Uddhava's vinaya is steady — in Mathurā at Trivakrā's, in Vraja with Yaśodā, in Dvārakā with Kṛṣṇa Himself.
A sādhu's rank is measured by how low he chooses to sit; Uddhava is the standard.
My note
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