Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.54
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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parisnutam
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completely wet (flowing around)
Past participle of pari + √snu, 'to flow all around'. The same root snu- as in verse 53. The Bhāgavatam doubles down on the somatic detail — repetition is not redundancy but emphasis. The breast does not merely drip; it is parisnuta — flooded.
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mohitā māyayā viṣṇoḥ
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bewildered by the māyā of Viṣṇu
Phrase: mohitā (bewildered) + māyā + viṣṇu. The technical surprise: Devakī's vātsalya is itself a working of yoga-māyā. Gauḍīyas read this as proof that the highest love-states are not 'jñāna-clear' — they are deliberately rasa-veiled.
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suta-sparśa
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by the touch of her sons
Compound: suta (son) + sparśa (touch). The milk flows in response to physical contact. The same biology that animates Yaśodā's overflow. Bhakti is somatic.
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sṛṣṭiḥ pravartate
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creation proceeds
Phrase: sṛṣṭi (creation) + pra + √vṛt (proceeds). The same māyā that bewilders Devakī is the māyā by which the universe arises. The Bhāgavatam quietly links the personal moment to the cosmic process.
In the opinion of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, the word sṛṣṭi can here also refer to the creative process by which Lord Viṣṇu’s Yoga-māyā arranges the settings and situations of His pastimes. There is indeed no question of Mother Devakī being affected by the material aspect of Māyā.
Being bewildered by yogamaya of visnu (mayaya) by which the spiritual creation with the lord’s pastimes and associates takes place (not the maya by which the creation of Brahma takes place), she fed them her breast milk.
Her breasts were completely flowing with milk which had been touched by Kṛṣṇa and other sons. Another version has pariplūtam. This means her breasts were covered with the affection of her sons. The cause is explained. She was bewildered by yoga-māyā-śakti, for his pastimes. The creation pastime is mentioned in this regard but the statement using ordinary words is only for easily understanding of common people.
Her breast was completely soaked with milk touched by her son Kṛṣṇa, or her sons. She was attracted in her heart (mohitāḥ) by māyā in the form of affection for her sons. She could not avoid that māyā since it belonged to the Lord who pervades the universe (viṣṇoḥ). “Why would the Lord put his mother into illusion?” Without that māyā, the universe would not be created. Or by that mercy she will again become his mother in the next birth.
A mother who knows philosophically that her son is the Lord still gives him her breast — and even is herself sweetly bewildered, because the bewilderment IS the love. Devakī is 'mohitā māyayā viṣṇoḥ' — not as a defect, but as the proper rasa-state of a vātsalya-mother.
My note
Source: vedabase.io