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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.17

తత్రోపస్పృశ్య విశదం పీత్వా వారి మహారథౌ । కృష్ణౌ దద‍ృశతు: కన్యాం చరన్తీం చారుదర్శనామ్ ॥ ౧౭ ॥
tatropaspṛśya viśadaṁ
[tatropasprishya vishadam]
pītvā vāri mahā-rathau
[peetvaa vaari mahaa-rathau]
kṛṣṇau dadṛśatuḥ kanyāṁ
[krishnau dadrishatuh kanyaam]
carantīṁ cāru-darśanām
[charanteem chaaru-darshanaam]
tatra — there upaspṛśya — taking bath viśadam — clear pītvā — drinking vāri — the water mahā - rathau — great chariot warriors kṛṣṇau — the two Kṛṣṇas dadṛśatuḥ — saw kanyām — a maiden carantīm — walking cāru - darśanām — charming to see .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
tatropaspṛśya viśadaṁ
tatra
there
upaspṛśya
taking bath
viśadam
clear
pītvā vāri mahā-rathau
pītvā
drinking
vāri
the water
mahā - rathau
great chariot warriors
kṛṣṇau dadṛśatuḥ kanyāṁ
kṛṣṇau
the two Kṛṣṇas
dadṛśatuḥ
saw
kanyām
a maiden
carantīṁ cāru-darśanām
carantīm
walking
cāru - darśanām
charming to see .
  • upaspṛśya — taking bath
    From upa + √spṛś — touching the water. Ritual touching of the river is a small ācamana, a daily devotional act. Gauḍīyas note: Yamunā-touch is treated by tradition as itself prema-prada — granting prema.
  • viśadam — clear
    Pure, unclouded. The water has been clear ever since Kṛṣṇa removed Kāliya's poison. Bhāgavatam carries that doctrinal memory by adjective alone.
  • kṛṣṇau — the two Kṛṣṇas
    Dual — Arjuna is also called Kṛṣṇa, the dark one. Mahābhārata frequently pairs them with this dual. Gauḍīyas read the unity in difference: Arjuna is Nara, Kṛṣṇa is Nārāyaṇa — the eternal Nara-Nārāyaṇa Ṛṣis re-embodied (cf. SB 4.1).
  • cāru - darśanām — of attractive appearance
    Compound cāru (lovely) + darśana (sight). Whose darśana? The reader meets her with the same word the bhakta uses of the Lord — Bhāgavatam handing the scene a hint of the recognition to come.
After the two Kṛṣṇas bathed there, they drank the river’s clear water. The great warriors then saw an attractive young girl walking nearby.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
After the two Kṛṣṇas bathed there, they drank the river's clear water. The great warriors then saw an attractive young girl walking nearby.
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

The two were standing in a high chariot (mahā-rathau) so that they could see a great distance. They saw an attractive girl moving about (carantīm), trying to hide herself on hearing the sound of the chariot, or they saw a girl performing (carantīm) austerities in order to concentrate her mind on Kṛṣṇa. In either case it is not said they saw her and she saw them. They saw her only. Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa are called two Kṛsṇas because of they were attracted to each other by mutual friendship. The girl had a most beautiful form (cāru-darśaṇām).

Related values
Discriminative WisdomKshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Ahimsa (Non-violence / Compassion)Guru Bhakti (Reverence for Teacher)Karuna (Kindness / Compassion)Bhakti (Devotion)Maitri (Friendship / Goodwill)
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Concepts
JivaDarshana

At the same riverbank where Kṛṣṇa once subdued Kāliya, a different kind of meeting unfolds — the river herself sends up a maiden, as if to repay His old grace with a daughter for His household. Yamunā remembers Vraja.

Kāliya at Yamunā

Earlier in SB (10.16), child-Kṛṣṇa danced on the hood of the serpent Kāliya in this same river, restoring her waters. Yamunā has been His debtor ever since.

Gauḍīyas read Kālindī's appearance now as one strand of Yamunā's gratitude: the river offers her own daughter to the one who freed her. The Bhāgavatam's geography is rasa-aware — events return to the rivers that witnessed earlier ones.

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