Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.83.36
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kuśasthalīm
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Kuśasthalī (Dvārakā)
Kuśa (a sacred grass) + sthala (place). Dvārakā's older name — the place originally raised by King Raivata. Gauḍīya cosmology holds Dvārakā as one of the eternal līlā-locales, manifested on earth at Kṛṣṇa's advent.
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yadu - patiḥ
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Lord of the Yadus
Yadu (the clan) + pati (lord). Kṛṣṇa's title as the head of the Yādava dynasty. He enters not as a successful suitor but as the king coming home with a queen — the dynastic frame restored.
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ravi - chada - dhvaja - paṭa
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flag-banners (so many) they covered the sun
Ravi (sun) + chada (covering) + dhvaja (flag) + paṭa (banner). The hyperbole: the city's flag-banners block the sun. Yet the next phrase compares Kṛṣṇa Himself to the sun entering His abode — the only sun the city needs is now within its walls.
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taraṇiḥ iva sva - ketanam
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as the sun enters its own abode
Taraṇi (sun, that which crosses) + iva (like) + sva (own) + ketana (abode). The simile reverses the previous phrase's hyperbole: the flag-banners block the outer sun precisely because the inner Sun has just arrived. Gauḍīya doctrine: Dvārakā is illumined by Kṛṣṇa Himself, not by sūrya.
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abhisaṁstutām
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glorified (from all sides)
Abhi (all around) + sam (fully) + stuta (praised). Dvārakā is sung by both divi and bhuvi — heaven and earth. The verse stations Kṛṣṇa's city in the same triloka-gītā category as Hari-kathā itself (verse 5).
The abode of the sun is in the western mountains, where he sets each evening.
Krsna entered Dvaraka which had flags on poles which covered the sun. and wonderful arches.
After this (tataḥ), not without first defeating the kings, he entered Dvārakā, since he was the best of the great warriors (yadu-patiḥ). Or, he was the husband (patiḥ) among the Yadus, since he had now attained a wife. The details of the city decorated at that time for his entrance indicate the joy that had arisen in the Yadus. That city was praised profusely (abhi--saṁstutām) in heaven and on earth as the greatest. It was an extraordinary city even without the present decorations. He entered the city just like the sun, which shines independently and illuminates its surroundings when entering its area in the sky (sva-ketanam). He entered with accompaniment of music (sam) and with bliss (ā). Taruṇi is also a name of Viṣṇu. He entered Dvārakā just as Viṣṇu enters Vaikuṇṭha.
Then He enters His own city — Kuśasthalī, Dvārakā — decorated to the point of blocking the sun with flag-banners and arched gateways. Bhagavān entering His own purī is compared to the sun entering its own abode. He has come home, and the bride He has brought is the home's new resident. The chapter has travelled from Bṛhatsena's puram (verse 20) to Bhagavān's purīm — from contest-city to ārādhya-city.
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