Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.61.8-9
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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rukmiṇyām
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in Rukmiṇī
Locative of Rukmiṇī, Kṛṣṇa's first and chief queen, recognised in Gauḍīya theology as Lakṣmī's direct expansion in Dvārakā-līlā. Her sons inherit her closeness.
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pradyumna-pramukhāḥ
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headed by Pradyumna
pramukha, 'foremost' — literally 'front-mouthed.' Pradyumna leads the ten as Kṛṣṇa's direct vyūha-incarnation. In the Catur-vyūha doctrine he is the deity of the mind (manas), aptly first in a list of Kṛṣṇa's mental progeny.
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hareḥ
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by Lord Hari
Genitive of Hari, 'He who takes away' — of sins, of bondage. A favorite Bhāgavata-name; using it here marks the sons as ultimately Hari's, not Rukmiṇī's alone.
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avamāḥ
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inferior
With the preceding 'na', 'not inferior to their father.' The same idiom as verse 1 — each generation participates in Kṛṣṇa's opulence but does not displace Him. Acintya-bhedābheda in narrative form.
Each of them was strong (vīryavān). Bhadracāru was younger than Cārugupta. That is indicated by tathā paraḥ. The succession is from oldest to youngest. The tenth is stated as such to emphasize that there was not an eleventh son and that Pradyumna was the eldest. The Lord was all attractive (hariḥ) and thus his sons were similar according to the maxim “like the seed so the sprout.” None of them (indicated by the word ca repeated) were less than their father. This was stated before, but for emphasis it is repeated. The following lists are similar.
The sons were similar to their father, who was attractive (hariḥ). With this intention they were all named Cāru (attractive). They were not less (na avamaḥ) than their father. This was stated before, but for emphasis it is repeated. The following lists are similar.
Like ten lamps lit from one wick, each son of Rukmiṇī carries some syllable of his father's beauty — cāru, cāru, cāru — sound-echoes that the mother's prema keeps repeating, as if she could not stop saying 'beautiful' once she had begun.
In SB 10.55, Rukmiṇī's firstborn Pradyumna was abducted by the demon Śambara within ten days of birth and thrown into the sea. He grew up in Śambara's house, learned the truth from Māyāvatī (Ratī, his eternal consort), killed Śambara, and returned to Dvārakā so resembling Kṛṣṇa that even Rukmiṇī first mistook him for her husband.
So when Śuka now names Pradyumna as Rukmiṇī's first son, he is not naming a stranger but the long-lost son already restored — Cupid himself born of Kṛṣṇa, the seed of the Aniruddha-line that will marry into Bāṇāsura's house in the next chapter.
My note
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