Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.77.1
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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upaspṛśya
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touching (water)
Ritual ācamana — the warrior purifies himself before reentering battle. Kṛṣṇa's son enacts the brāhmaṇical discipline even within a kṣatriya-līlā, modeling that no act, even war, is done outside of dharmic remembrance.
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daṁśitaḥ
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fastening His armor
From √daṁś (to bite, fasten). The varman of a warrior — emblem of the spiritual armoring (kavaca) of nāma and smaraṇa that the devotee fastens before facing māyā's onslaught.
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dhṛta-kārmukaḥ
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having taken up His bow
Compound: dhṛta (held) + kārmuka (bow). Pradyumna inherits not only His father Kṛṣṇa's beauty but the readiness to wield weapons in protective līlā — the Yadu line never lays down arms in the middle of an unfinished duty.
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sārathim
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to His driver
The sārathi motif of the Bhāgavatam — Kṛṣṇa Himself is Pārtha-sārathi for Arjuna; here Pradyumna commands his own driver. The driver is the buddhi that must be told plainly where the ātmā wishes to fight.
Pradyumna was eager to rectify the discrepancy of His having left the battlefield when His chariot driver carried Him away unconscious.
In the seventy seventh chapter, Krsna returns to Dvaraka from Indraprastha, and quickly kills Salva riding in his magical vehicle. In order to correct the fault of fleeing from the battlefield incurred by his charioteer doing his duty of protecting him, Pradyumna, skilful in ksatriya dharma, doing acamana, put on his armor.
On version has tūpaspṛśya. The word tu indicates a change of topic. The charioteer had taken off his armor in order to revive him. Now he put on his armor (daṁśitaḥ) and took up his bow. This shows his great enthusiasm to fight. The reason for going back was that there was a hero there (vīrasya) waiting to fight.
Pradyumna, son of Rukmiṇī, will not let the smudge of a forced retreat stand on His record — He rinses, straps on His armor, takes up His bow, and orders the chariot turned back toward the foe. A devotee likewise does not normalize the moment of weakness in sādhana; he turns the chariot of the senses back to face the very point at which he fled.
My note
Source: vedabase.io