Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.50.54
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sudharmām
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the Sudharmā assembly hall
Sudharmā — Indra's own court-hall, transferred to Dvārakā. Su + dharmā — 'of excellent dharma.' Mortals seated within it are exempt from the laws of mortality; the hall itself confers a kind of immortality through proximity to the Lord.
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pārijātam
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the pārijāta tree
The fragrant kalpa-vṛkṣa of svarga. Brought voluntarily here; in chapter 59 Kṛṣṇa takes it again, this time by force, for Satyabhāmā. Gauḍīyas relish the chiasmus.
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martya-dharmaiḥ
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by the laws of mortality
Compound: martya (mortal) + dharma (intrinsic law), instrumental plural. Inside Sudharmā the mortal does not undergo mortal-dharma — hunger, fatigue, aging cease. The hall is a transcendence-pocket inside the city, the way the dhāma is a transcendence-pocket inside the cosmos.
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mahā-indraḥ
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Lord Indra, King of heaven
Compound: mahā + Indra. The king of demigods delivers gifts to the king of Dvārakā. Hierarchy on full display: even the highest demigod is courier, not host, when Bhagavān descends.
He established the parijata tree there. This is in the past tense in relation to Sukadeva and Pariksit’s conversation.
Indra brought the pārijāta tree, or rather gave it up when Kṛṣṇa took it. Or, previous to that pastime, Kṛṣṇa arranged for a variety of pārijātas as described in verse 51, different from that stolen from Svarga. These were brought by Indra. The Sudharmā hall however was only one. Indra did not willing send it. The word hareḥ indicates the Kṛṣṇa took it by force.
Indra brings to Kṛṣṇa the Sudharmā assembly-hall — within which mortals are not subject to mortality — and the pārijāta tree. The king of heaven becomes a delivery-attendant for the king of Dvārakā. The hierarchy is plainly stated: Indra serves; Kṛṣṇa receives.
Here in 10.50.54 Indra voluntarily delivers the pārijāta to Dvārakā. Later (SB 10.59), Kṛṣṇa Himself takes the pārijāta from Indra's garden for Satyabhāmā — and Indra resists, only to be subdued.
Gauḍīya commentators read the pair: first Indra gives gladly, then Indra hoards. The pattern shows that even devotional surrender at one moment can give way to forgetfulness the next; only constant remembrance of the Lord's position keeps the demigods in their proper role.
My note
Source: vedabase.io