Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.36
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pādau avanijya
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having washed the feet
Verbal phrase: feet + ava + ni + √j (to wash). Pādya — the offering of foot-water — is one of the sixteen upacāras of formal worship. Bali performs it in person, not delegating to priests.
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ā-brahma
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up to (and including) Brahmā
Adverbial compound: ā- (up to) + brahma (Brahmā). The pāda-jala purifies the whole hierarchy of beings up to the four-headed Creator himself. Bhagavān's feet are the upper limit of sanctity, with Brahmā below.
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punat
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purifying
Present participle of √pū. The water is not symbolically purifying — it is actively, presently doing the work. Gauḍīyas: contact with what has touched Bhagavān is itself sādhana.
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sa-vṛndaḥ
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with his group
Compound: sa (with) + vṛnda (group). Same pattern as 'sa-anvayaḥ' in verse 35. The community of devotion: Bali never serves alone.
With his followers Bali put the water on his head, which purifies everything up to Lord Brahma.
With joy, bowing his head, he offered (sam—ānīya) them one excellent seat, seeing them as one out of affection. Tayoḥ is repeated out of great bhakti. Some versions have tadā instead of tayoḥ. When they were seated and were satisfied with it, he washed their feet and placed the water on his head. Instead of dadhāra sometimes babhāra is seen.
Joyful, he brought them in, and had them seated in joy in separate seats. Tayoḥ is repeated to indicate the separate seats. He took all the water from washing the feet on his and his associates’ heads, the highest limb of the body because they were the supreme Lords (mahātmanaḥ).
A devotee washes the feet of his Deity and then sprinkles the water on his own head — like a man bottling sunlight to drink at midnight. The pāda-jala of Bhagavān purifies even Lord Brahmā; Bali makes it the perfume of his own household.
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Source: vedabase.io