Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.57.8
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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taila - droṇyām
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in a vat of oil
Compound: taila (oil) + droṇī (large tub). The detail is unforgettable — Satyabhāmā preserves the body so Kṛṣṇa can later perform the rites Himself (verse 28). Gauḍīyas note: devotees do not let go of the dead until the Lord has been informed.
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gaja - sāhvayam
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to Hastināpura (named after the elephant)
Compound: gaja (elephant) + āhvaya (name). Hastina-pura, 'elephant city,' the Kuru capital where Kṛṣṇa was performing kinship rites. Satyabhāmā crosses kingdoms with her father's corpse riding behind her — bhakti's geography in motion.
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vidita - arthāya
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to (Kṛṣṇa) who was already aware
Compound: vidita (known) + artha (matter). The verse repeats verse 1's frame: Kṛṣṇa already knows. Yet she tells Him, because telling Bhagavān what He already knows is itself one of the limbs of bhakti — āvedana, surrendering one's affairs by speaking them.
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taptā
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scorched (with grief)
Past participle of √tap (to heat, burn). The same root as tapas — austerity. Gauḍīyas hear a deep tone: she is undergoing an involuntary tapas of grief that Kṛṣṇa will redirect. Bhakti often begins in heat the devotee did not choose.
People said that since her husband was the supreme Lord, she could have him bring her father back to life. For that reason she went to Hastinapura, and not out of affection for her father, because her father had animosity towards Krsna. Thus her grieving (tapta) was in order to encourage Krsna to appear to show grief as well.
Because the necessary rites like śrāddhas, after burning the body, could not be done, she put his body in oil. Or she did this because she wanted the Lord bring him to life, or she wanted to show the body to the Lord in order that he grieve and become angry. But the Lord already knew the inevitable future results because the jewel had been possessed by the wrong people such as Prasena.
Satyabhāmā preserves her father in oil so the funeral can wait for Kṛṣṇa — even her grief organizes itself around His timing. A devotee in shock still arranges the world so that Bhagavān can act on it.
My note
Source: vedabase.io