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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.27

పత్నీం వీక్ష్య విస్ఫురన్తీం దేవీం వైమానికీమివ । దాసీనాం నిష్కకణ్ఠీనాం మధ్యే భాన్తీం స విస్మిత: ॥ ౨౭ ॥
patnīṁ vīkṣya visphurantīṁ
[patneem veekshya visphuranteem]
devīṁ vaimānikīm iva
[deveem vaimaanikeem iva]
dāsīnāṁ niṣka-kaṇṭhīnāṁ
[daaseenaam nishka-kantheenaam]
madhye bhāntīṁ sa vismitaḥ
[madhye bhaanteem sa vismitah]
patnīm — his wife vīkṣya — seeing visphurantīm — appearing effulgent devīm — a demigoddess vaimānikīm — come in a heavenly airplane iva — as if dāsīnām — of maidservants niṣka — lockets kaṇṭhīnām — on whose necks madhye — in the midst bhāntīm — shining saḥ — he vismitaḥ — amazed .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
patnīṁ vīkṣya visphurantīṁ
patnīm
his wife
vīkṣya
seeing
visphurantīm
appearing effulgent
devīṁ vaimānikīm iva
devīm
a demigoddess
vaimānikīm
come in a heavenly airplane
iva
as if
dāsīnāṁ niṣka-kaṇṭhīnāṁ
dāsīnām
of maidservants
niṣka
lockets
kaṇṭhīnām
on whose necks
madhye bhāntīṁ sa vismitaḥ
madhye
in the midst
bhāntīm
shining
saḥ
he
vismitaḥ
amazed .
  • visphurantīm — appearing effulgent
    Present participle of vi + √sphur (to shine forth, throb). She is throbbing-bright — not lit from outside but glowing from within. The bhāva radiates as light. Gauḍīya: the bhakta's body undergoes visible change when Bhagavān's blessing rests on it.
  • devīm vaimānikīm iva — as if a demigoddess come in a heavenly airplane
    devī (goddess) + vaimānikī (one who travels by vimāna) + iva. The wife has not actually flown anywhere — she has stayed home — yet she looks like a sky-goddess. The poet inverts cosmic geography: the celestial has descended into the house.
  • niṣka-kaṇṭhīnām — (maidservants) with lockets on their necks
    Compound: niṣka (a gold ornament, locket) + kaṇṭha (neck). Even the maidservants wear gold. The chapter's wealth pours through the household at every level — not concentrated on the master but distributed.
  • vismitaḥ — amazed
    Past participle of vi + √smi (to wonder). The same vismaya-bhāva from verse 15 returns. Sudāmā's whole homecoming is a sustained vismaya — and the poet keeps marking it, because vismaya is the rasa-component the verse wants the reader to share.
Sudāmā was amazed to see his wife. Shining forth in the midst of maidservants adorned with jeweled lockets, she looked as effulgent as a demigoddess in her celestial airplane.

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī explains that up to now the Supreme Lord had kept the brāhmaṇa in his wretched state so that his wife could recognize him.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Sudāmā was amazed to see his wife. Shining forth in the midst of maidservants adorned with jeweled lockets, she looked as effulgent as a demigoddess in her celestial airplane.
Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

He directly saw his wife who was shining brilliantly (visphurantīm), like a devatā woman in an airplane and was amazed.

Related values
Adambhitva (Non-hypocrisy / Authenticity)Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)Discriminative Wisdom
Related verses

A pauper husband stands in the doorway and sees his wife — the same woman who had been thin from fasting — now standing in the middle of jeweled maidservants, shining as if she had stepped out of a vimāna. Kṛṣṇa's gift has rewritten the household's geography, and the doorway is the boundary between two lives.

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