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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.55.30

అథ తత్రాసితాపాఙ్గీ వైదర్భీ వల్గుభాషిణీ । అస్మరత్ స్వసుతం నష్టం స్‍నేహస్‍నుతపయోధరా ॥ ౩౦ ॥
atha tatrāsitāpāṅgī
[atha tatraasitaapaangee]
vaidarbhī valgu-bhāṣiṇī
[vaidarbhee valgu-bhaashinee]
asmarat sva-sutaṁ naṣṭaṁ
[asmarat sva-sutam nashtam]
sneha-snuta-payodharā
[sneha-snuta-payodharaa]
atha — then tatra — there asita — black apāṅgī — the corners of whose eyes vaidarbhī — Queen Rukmiṇī valgu — sweet bhāṣinī — whose speaking asmarat — remembered sva - sutam — her son naṣṭam — lost sneha — out of love snuta — having become moist payaḥ - dharā — whose breasts .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
atha tatrāsitāpāṅgī
atha
then
tatra
there
asita
black
apāṅgī
the corners of whose eyes
vaidarbhī valgu-bhāṣiṇī
vaidarbhī
Queen Rukmiṇī
valgu
sweet
bhāṣinī
whose speaking
asmarat sva-sutaṁ naṣṭaṁ
asmarat
remembered
sva - sutam
her son
naṣṭam
lost
sneha-snuta-payodharā
sneha
out of love
snuta
having become moist
payaḥ - dharā
whose breasts .
  • asita-apāṅgī — the one with black eye-corners
    Compound: asita (black) + apāṅgī (whose eye-corners, fem.). A standard feminine-beauty epithet, but here loaded — the dark of her eyes will fill with tears the moment the next verb fires. Iconography prepares emotion.
  • valgu-bhāṣinī — whose speech is sweet
    Compound: valgu (charming, melodious) + bhāṣinī (speaker, fem.). Rukmiṇī's voice is gentle even in distress — the queen's restraint, as opposed to Devakī's open lamentation. Different mothers, different rasa-voices.
  • sva-sutam-naṣṭam — her son, who was lost
    Compound: sva (her own) + sutam (son) + naṣṭam (lost). Three syllables that re-instate the relationship before her conscious mind decides. The grammar performs the recognition.
  • sneha-snuta-payaḥ-dharā — whose breasts became wet from affection
    Compound: sneha (affection) + snuta (flowing) + payaḥ (milk) + dharā (containing, fem.). The exact lexical family used of Yaśodā at 10.9.3. The Bhāgavatam announces: vātsalya does not differ between Vraja and Dvārakā in its bodily signature; only in its rasa-grade.
Seeing Pradyumna, sweet-voiced, dark-eyed Rukmiṇī remembered her lost son, and her breasts became moist out of affection.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Seeing Pradyumna, sweet-voiced, dark-eyed Rukmiṇī remembered her lost son, and her breasts became moist out of affection.
Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

While the women were looking at him after he arrived, Rukmiṇī, who possessed beautiful glances and spoke in the most pleasing manner, remembered her son, because of the similarity of form. The word sva indicates her extreme affection for him. Though a long time had passed since he was born, milk still flowed from her breasts. Though the milk flowed on remembering her son, the two events happened simultaneously. Thus it is said that the milk flowed and she remembered her son. This indicates her great affection. Or just on seeing him, her milk flowed. Or she remembered him and her milk flowed.

Related values
Bhakti (Devotion)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)
Related verses
Concepts
Jiva

Rukmiṇī, dark-eyed and sweet-voiced, sees Pradyumna and her breasts moisten with milk — the body remembers the son before the mind names Him. Vātsalya-rasa is somatic; the mother's flesh speaks first. Bhakti, when it is real, is felt in the organs of the body, not only the chambers of the heart.

Yaśodā's milk flowing for Kṛṣṇa

Canto 10.9.3-4 records the same somatic signature: when Yaśodā sees Kṛṣṇa, milk flows from her breasts spontaneously — the body's involuntary response to her son's presence. The Bhāgavatam uses identical vocabulary (sneha-snuta, the milk wet with affection).

Gauḍīyas read Rukmiṇī's moistened breasts here as the Dvārakā-rasa echo of Yaśodā's Vraja-rasa. Two mothers, two registers (aiśvarya and mādhurya), one body-language. The Lord designs the līlā so that the somatic signs of vātsalya are continuous across His expansions.

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