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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.38

పృథా విలోక్య భ్రాత్రేయం కృష్ణం త్రిభువనేశ్వరమ్ । ప్రీతాత్మోత్థాయ పర్యఙ్కాత్ సస్‍నుషా పరిషస్వజే ॥ ౩౮ ॥
pṛthā vilokya bhrātreyaṁ
[prithaa vilokya bhraatreyam]
kṛṣṇaṁ tri-bhuvaneśvaram
[krishnam tri-bhuvaneshvaram]
prītātmotthāya paryaṅkāt
[preetaatmotthaaya paryankaat]
sa-snuṣā pariṣasvaje
[sa-snushaa parishasvaje]
pṛthā — Queen Kuntī vilokya — seeing bhrātreyam — her brother’s son kṛṣṇam — Lord Kṛṣṇa tri - bhuvana — of the three worlds īśvaram — the master prīta — full of love ātmā — whose heart utthāya — rising paryaṅkāt — from her couch sa - snuṣā — together with her daughter-in-law (Draupadī) pariṣasvaje — embraced .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
pṛthā vilokya bhrātreyaṁ
pṛthā
Queen Kuntī
vilokya
seeing
bhrātreyam
her brother’s son
kṛṣṇaṁ tri-bhuvaneśvaram
kṛṣṇam
Lord Kṛṣṇa
tri - bhuvana
of the three worlds
prītātmotthāya paryaṅkāt
sa-snuṣā pariṣasvaje
īśvaram
the master
prīta
full of love
ātmā
whose heart
utthāya
rising
paryaṅkāt
from her couch
sa - snuṣā
together with her daughter-in-law (Draupadī)
pariṣasvaje
embraced .
  • pṛthā — Queen Kuntī
    Pṛthā — Kuntī's birth-name (daughter of Śūra). The verse uses the older, more intimate name when she sees her nephew. The Bhāgavata's lexical sensitivity: family names for family scenes.
  • bhrātreyam — brother's son
    Bhrātṛ-eyam — son of one's brother. Kuntī's brother is Vasudeva. The kinship vocabulary is unusually specific; vātsalya here is grammatically precise.
  • tri - bhuvana - īśvaram — Lord of the three worlds
    And in the same verse — bhrātreyam and tri-bhuvana-īśvaram. The Bhāgavata loves this double register: nephew and Lord of three worlds, embraced in the same breath. Gauḍīyas treat it as bhakti's signature paradox.
When Queen Pṛthā saw her nephew Kṛṣṇa, the master of the three worlds, her heart became filled with love. Rising from her couch with her daughter-in-law, she embraced the Lord.

Queen Kuntī’s daughter-in-law is the famous Draupadī.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
When Queen Pṛthā saw her nephew Kṛṣṇa, the master of the three worlds, her heart became filled with love. Rising from her couch with her daughter-in-law, she embraced the Lord.
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

She had special affection since he was her nephew and the cause of joy for the three worlds. In expectation of seeing the Lord she had previously gone to the main palace and sat there. Then on seeing him, because of intense prema she was unable to rise from her seat, but somehow she managed to do so. She embraced him. It is later mentioned that Draupadī however was standing behind with bowed head out of great respect. She was present with Kuntī, but did not embrace Kṛṣṇa. Sabda-smṛti also agrees with this interpretation. The compound sa-snuṣā is poetic license.

Related values
Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Discriminative WisdomAbhaya (Fearlessness)Seva (Service / Selfless Action)Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Daksya (Resourcefulness / Skill)Daya (Compassion / Mercy)
Related verses

Pṛthā rising from her couch to embrace Kṛṣṇa, with Draupadī beside her, is like a long-tended lamp whose oil is nearly spent suddenly being touched by its own original fire — the flame leaps because the source has come.

Kuntī's prayer

Kuntī's most famous prayer is at SB 1.8.18–43, when Kṛṣṇa is about to leave Hastināpura after the war. There she asks for calamities (vipadaḥ santu) precisely so that He will keep visiting. Beneath every Pāṇḍava embrace of Kṛṣṇa lies that same yearning — viraha is welcome only because milana keeps following it.

Here, before any of that, Kuntī simply rises and holds Him. The Bhāgavata records the heart's plain movement before it records its theology.

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