Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.51
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pati-prema
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pure love for one's husband
Compound: pati (husband) + prema (pure love). The conjugal-prema specifically. Gauḍīyas read mādhurya-rasa in two registers: parakīya (paramour-style, Vraja) and svakīya (married-style, Dvārakā). Rukmiṇī's pati-prema is the svakīya-mādhurya at its highest.
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pāti-vratyam
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adherence to vows of chastity
From pati-vrata — vow-keeping toward one's husband. The classical satī-virtue. Cf. Sītā, Anasūyā, Devahūti, Damayantī. He certifies Rukmiṇī as fit company for that lineage.
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anaghe
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O sinless one
Feminine vocative of an-agha (without sin). He addresses her as 'sinless' — the verdict of the whole test. Cf. anagha as a name of Kṛṣṇa Himself; here He grants the title to His queen.
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apakarṣitā
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dragged away
Past passive of apa + √kṛṣ — to drag off. Even My own words could not drag your mind away from Me. The verb names the test exactly: the words were the rope, and the mind did not budge.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī quotes the following verse describing the pure love between Rukmiṇī and Kṛṣṇa: sarvathā dhvaṁsa-rahitaṁ saty api dhvaṁsa-kāraṇe yad bhāva-bandhanaṁ yūnoḥ sa premā parikīrtitaḥ “When the affectionate bond between a young man and a young woman can never be destroyed, even when there is every cause for the destruction of that relationship, the attachment between them is said to be pure love.” This is the nature of the eternal loving affairs between Lord Kṛṣṇa and His pure conjugal associates.
"Because (yat), your mind, filled with intense love for me, did not decrease even a little in its love, what to speak of getting destroyed, by my words meant to break your love, I have understood the quality of that love." In the scriptures prema is described as follows: that is called prema the love between the man and woman remains intact even if there is cause for its destruction. "O sinless one (anagha), who have committed no offense even through your servitors, please forgive me for my offense committed to you."
I have witnessed your pure love because (yat), though you were agitated by my joking words, your intelligence in prema did not decrease by knowledge of causes for breaking the affection, but remained fully fixed. The transformation of bhāva called prema has this unique quality: sarvathā dhvaṁsa-rahitaṁ saty api dhvaṁsa-kāraṇe | yad-bhāva-bandhanaṁ yūnoḥ sa premā parikīrtitaḥ ||| When the relationship of love between the couple remains always without destruction even when there is causes for destroying it, it is called prema. Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi 14.63 O Rukmiṇī! You do not consider offenses of the devotees (anagha). Therefore you should forgive my offense.
The prema that you have for your husband was attained with skill or close to me, quickly and easily (upalabdham). Or “Let that be. Give your acceptance with your mouth.” I have directly realized your prema. What is the use of accepting it, because by my faultless qualities, which were not true, though you were disturbed, your mind did not decrease its prema. Rather that prema became most excellent. O Rukmiṇī! You do not consider offenses of the devotees (anagha). Therefore you should forgive my offense.
A jeweler tests a stone with acid; the stone does not change color. Mind, shaken by My words like a leaf in wind, did not detach from Me. The proof was wanted; the proof was given. He pronounces the result of His own test.
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Source: vedabase.io