Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.46
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
-
dāmabhiḥ
—
with ropes
Instrumental plural of dāma — rope. The Dāmodara-word. Gauḍīya: the rope-vocabulary deliberately reverses SB 10.9; the rope that could not bind Him here binds at His pleasure.
-
śauriḥ
—
Lord Kṛṣṇa (descendant of Śūrasena)
From Śūrasena, Kṛṣṇa's paternal grandfather. The clan-name surfaces in a moment of warrior valour. Gauḍīya: the Bhāgavatam selects names by rasa — Śauri for the bull-binding episode signals martial register.
-
dāru - mayān
—
like a child with wooden bulls
Compound phrase bāla (child) + dāru-maya (made of wood). The Bhāgavatam likens His handling of these terrible bulls to a child dragging wooden toys. Gauḍīya: vātsalya-rasa quietly tints even the kṣatriya scene; Kṛṣṇa is always the child of Vraja somewhere beneath.
-
līlayā
—
playfully
Repeated from verse 45 — the act remains līlā. Gauḍīya: the adverb is the doctrine; bhakti's whole answer to 'why does Bhagavān do this?' is līlayā.
They were like wooden toys pulled by strings by a child.
What broke the pride of every other suitor now becomes a wooden toy in a child's hands — the same animals, the same ropes, but the agent has changed. The dāmodara who could not be tied is here the binder.
In SB 10.9, Yaśodā tried to bind her toddler to the mortar with cord after cord, and every rope fell two fingers short — until her exhaustion itself became the rope that bound Him. Hence His name Dāmodara: 'rope-bellied'.
Here the rope-grammar reverses: He who could not be bound easily binds wild bulls and pulls them like wooden toys. Gauḍīyas read the two scenes as one koan — Bhagavān is bound by love alone; nothing else binds Him, and nothing resists Him.
My note
Source: vedabase.io