Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.10
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śrīḥ
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the goddess of fortune
The poet calls Rukmiṇī by Lakṣmī's name at the precise moment she intervenes. The reader is meant to see: the dispenser of all wealth is herself rationing Kṛṣṇa's bites because she knows what each one is worth.
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muṣṭim sakṛt
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one palmful, once
muṣṭi (handful) + sakṛt (once). A single mouthful — and the queen intervenes. Gauḍīyas read this as the doctrine of pramāṇa: there is a definite measure to what Kṛṣṇa needs to accept in order to bless infinitely.
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jagṛhe hastam
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she seized the hand
Perfect of √grah, with direct object hastam (hand). The startling intimacy: Lakṣmī herself grasps Bhagavān's hand. In Vaikuṇṭha protocol this is unthinkable; in the love-grammar between consort and Lord it is exactly right.
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parā
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devoted
Feminine of para — supremely devoted. Rukmiṇī's intervention is not opposition; it is parā-devotion working through her hand. She loves both her husband and his friend, and acts on behalf of both.
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parame-sthinaḥ
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of the Supreme Lord
Compound: parame (in the highest) + sthin (standing, situated). A title for Kṛṣṇa as supremely positioned. The poet uses it precisely at the moment His hand is grasped — the highest is held by the one He loves.
Queen Rukmiṇī took hold of Kṛṣṇa’s hand to prevent Him from eating any more of the flat rice. According to Śrīpāda Śrīdhara Svāmī, with this gesture she meant to tell the Lord, “This much of Your grace is sufficient to assure anyone vast riches, which are merely the play of my glance. But please do not force me to surrender myself to this brāhmaṇa, as will happen if You eat one more handful.” Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī explains that by taking hold of the Lord’s hand Rukmiṇī implied, “If You eat all of this wonderful treat Your friend brought from his house, what will I have left for my friends, co-wives, servants and myself? There will not be enough left to distribute even one grain to each of us.” And to her maidservant companions she said by her gesture, “This hard rice will upset my Lord’s tender stomach.” Śrīla Prabhupāda comments that “when food is offered to Lord Kṛṣṇa with love and devotion and He is pleased and accepts it from the devotee, Rukmiṇīdevī, the goddess of fortune, becomes so greatly obliged to the devotee that she has to go personally to the devotee’s home to turn it into the most opulent home in the world. If one feeds Nārāyaṇa sumptuously, the goddess of fortune, Lakṣmī, automatically becomes a guest in one’s house, which means that one’s home becomes opulent.”
Rukmini grabbed his hand with her hand indicating to Krnsa, "Do not eat." "If you eat all of this astonishing substance brought by your friend from his house, how can I divide the remainder up and distribute to my sisters-in-law, friends, co wives, and servants and myself? Even it I distribute one particle of rice to each persons, it will not be sufficient. " This was her indication for the Sudama. "This hard rice will injure his very tender stomach." This was what she along with her friends really intended to say to Krsna,
Tāvat expresses excess. More should not be taken. Rukmiṇī grasped the hand of the Supreme Lord since she was devoted to him. She could not tolerate him accepting the lowly chipped rice.
Tāvat expresses excess. More should not be taken. Rukmiṇī grasped the hand of the Supreme Lord (parameṣṭhinaḥ) since she was devoted to him (tat-parā). She was completely dependent on him. Or she grasped the hand of the Lord, who gave all wealth simply by that handful (parameṣṭhinaḥ). She could not tolerate him accepting the lowly chipped rice because of her love for him. Quickly she grasped his hand.
A wife stops her husband's hand mid-bite at a feast, smiling — not to deny him, but because she sees that one mouthful from this guest is already enough to bless the kingdom forever. Rukmiṇī, who is Lakṣmī, knows what Bhagavān's one palmful purchases.
Gauḍīya commentators note that Rukmiṇī here acts in her aiśvarya-svarūpa as Lakṣmī herself — the goddess of fortune intervening on Sudāmā's behalf. She stops her husband's eating because each palmful Kṛṣṇa accepts is, by her reckoning as the dispenser of fortune, an entire kingdom of wealth. One was enough; a second would be excess. Bhagavān defers to her — sakhya allows His friend to be enriched without violating the principle that nothing of Bhagavān is wasted.
My note
Source: vedabase.io