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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.65.15

ఇతి ప్రహసితం శౌరేర్జల్పితం చారు వీక్షితమ్ । గతిం ప్రేమపరిష్వఙ్గం స్మరన్త్యో రురుదు: స్‍త్రియ: ॥ ౧౫ ॥
iti prahasitaṁ śaurer
[iti prahasitam shaurer]
jalpitaṁ cāru-vīkṣitam
[jalpitam chaaru-veekshitam]
gatiṁ prema-pariṣvaṅgaṁ
[gatim prema-parishvangam]
smarantyo ruruduḥ striyaḥ
[smarantyo ruruduh striyah]
iti — thus speaking prahasitam — the laughter śaureḥ — of Lord Kṛṣṇa jalpitam — the pleasing conversations cāru — attractive vīkṣitam — the glances gatim — the walking prema — loving pariṣvaṅgam — the embrace smarantyaḥ — remembering ruruduḥ — cried striyaḥ — the women .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
iti prahasitaṁ śaurer
iti
thus speaking
prahasitam
the laughter
śaureḥ
of Lord Kṛṣṇa
jalpitaṁ cāru-vīkṣitam
jalpitam
the pleasing conversations
cāru
attractive
vīkṣitam
the glances
gatiṁ prema-pariṣvaṅgaṁ
gatim
the walking
prema
loving
pariṣvaṅgam
the embrace
smarantyo ruruduḥ striyaḥ
smarantyaḥ
remembering
ruruduḥ
cried
striyaḥ
the women .
  • prahasitam — the laughter
    Past participle of pra-√has. His laugh — the first thing the body remembers. Rūpa Gosvāmī lists prahāsa among Kṛṣṇa's aṣṭa-svabhāva attractive qualities.
  • śaureḥ — of Lord Kṛṣṇa
    Genitive of Śauri — 'descendant of Śūra,' the patronymic of Vasudeva. The Bhāgavatam slips in the Mathurā-name even as the gopīs remember the Vraja-body. Gauḍīyas note the irony: His city identity haunts His country body.
  • jalpitam — the pleasing conversations
    From √jalp (to chatter). Not formal speech — the casual back-and-forth. Mādhurya feeds on jalpa, the small talk of lovers, more than on grand discourse.
  • cāru — attractive
    Beautiful, lovely. Modifies vīkṣitam (glance). Cāru is a stock attribute of Kṛṣṇa in the Bhāgavatam — the eye, the smile, the gait are all cāru.
  • pariṣvaṅgam — the embrace
    Pari (around) + √svaj (to embrace). Same root as pariṣvaktaḥ in v. 2 — there it was the parents' embrace, here the lovers'. The Bhāgavatam uses the same verb to span the rasa-spectrum.
  • ruruduḥ — cried
    Perfect of √rud (to weep). The body's last word in this verse — falsifying the resolve of v. 14. Gauḍīyas treat tears as the bhāva that cannot be argued with.
While speaking these words, the young cowherd women remembered Lord Śauri’s laughter, His pleasing conversations with them, His attractive glances, His style of walking and His loving embraces. Thus they began to cry.

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī comments as follows: “The gopīs thought, ‘The Kṛṣṇa moon, after piercing our hearts with the darts of His nectarean laughter, went away. So how will the city women not die when He does the same to them?’ Overwhelmed with these thoughts, the young cowherd girls began to cry, even in the presence of Śrī Baladeva.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
While speaking these words, the young cowherd women remembered Lord Śauri's laughter, His pleasing conversations with them, His attractive glances, His style of walking and His loving embraces. Thus they began to cry.
Commentary

After piercing the gopis' hearts with the five arrows of his sweet smile, sweet talks, sweet glance, his stance in walking and his embrace, Krsna had disappeared on them. Now should they perhaps just die? Completely distressed, they began to cry right in front of Baladeva.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Thus (iti) they remembered his smile. The affix pra indicates the start of a smile. The word cāru (beautiful) should be understood with all his features they remembered. They remembered his embrace of all their limbs with his prema. Or, prema can indicate “soft with affection.” The list is in order of features that will make them cry more intensely. They call him a member of the kṣatriya clan (śaureḥ) out of anger since now he ignores the cowherd women. The word striyaḥ indicates that they had lost all discrimination.

Related values
Dana (Charity / Generosity)Prema (Divine Love)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Guru Bhakti (Reverence for Teacher)Shraddha (Faith / Reverence)Achapalya (Steadiness / Non-fickleness)Seva (Service / Selfless Action)Atma Nigraha (Self-control)
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Concepts
Jiva

Someone who has just declared 'I am over him' will, three minutes later, list the way he laughed, the way he walked, the way he held her — and burst into tears. The mind's declarations are no match for the body's memory in mādhurya-rasa.

Caitanya's bāhya-antara at Purī

Caitanya-caritāmṛta records Mahāprabhu in Jagannātha Purī falling into trance at any cue that recalled Vṛndāvana — a peacock feather, a glimpse of dark cloud, a snatch of song. His attendants would find Him in the same posture the gopīs occupy here: declared composure dissolved by remembered detail.

Gauḍīyas treat Mahāprabhu's Purī years as a re-enactment of the gopīs' vipralambha precisely modeled on this scene. The Bhāgavatam wrote the script.

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