Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.30
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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duryodhana - vaśa - anugau
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subservient to Duryodhana
Compound — under Duryodhana's control. Politics has already chosen sides; Mitravindā's brothers are not free to discern. Gauḍīya: when worldly faction speaks louder than family bhāva, the sister must be rescued.
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svayamvare
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in the ceremony of choosing her own husband
From sva (own) + vara (choice). The svayaṁvara is in principle the woman's free choice — and yet her brothers have forbidden the choice she would make. The Bhāgavatam exposes the contradiction in one word.
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saktām
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attached
Past participle of √sañj — attached. The same root as saṅga (verse 3). Mitravindā's heart is already saṅga-saktā to Kṛṣṇa; the brothers are forbidding what is already real.
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bhaginīm
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sister
From bhāga — share. A sister is one who shares the parental wealth. Bhāgavatam quietly stresses kinship — the brothers fail their share of sisterly love; Kṛṣṇa, the cousin, will keep it.
The feelings of enmity between the Kurus and the Pāṇḍavas were so strong that Mitravindā’s brothers, out of friendship for Duryodhana, forbade the young maiden to accept Kṛṣṇa as her husband.
Two verse describe Krsna’s marriage to Mitravinda, his fifth wife. Vinda and Anuvinda were two kings of Avanti.
Though it was a matter of choice, the brothers prevented their sister who was attracted to Kṛṣṇa from marrying him.
Though it was a matter of choice (svyaṁvare), the brothers prevented their sister who was attracted to Kṛṣṇa from marrying him. Or she was attracted to Kṛṣṇa, who stole her (svayaṁvare). Or the brothers forbade her to choose by herself (svayaṁ vare). They were followers of Duryodhana. They followed his desire. Kṛṣṇa stole her though she was the daughter of his aunt because his heart was attracted by the prema of his dear devotee (kṛṣṇe).
Sometimes a sister's brothers obstruct her from the choice her heart has already made — and the very obstruction reveals where her heart lives. Mitravindā's silence under her brothers' veto is louder than any speech.
In SB 10.52, Rukmiṇī's brother Rukmī also forbade her to marry Kṛṣṇa, planning her marriage to Śiśupāla. Rukmiṇī wrote her famous letter — and Kṛṣṇa came in person to abduct her at the temple of Ambikā.
Mitravindā's situation reprises that grammar exactly: a sister attached to Kṛṣṇa, brothers in Duryodhana's faction obstructing, and Bhagavān stepping in to take her openly. Gauḍīya: a sister's bhakti has higher authority than a brother's politics.
My note
Source: vedabase.io