Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.86.11
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kṣubhitaḥ
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disturbed
Past participle of √kṣubh — to be agitated. The same root used for Arjuna's heart in v. 6, 8; the family is a single body of bhāva — when one part is shaken, another rises. Bhagavān-līlā moves by such resonances.
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mahā-arṇavaḥ
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the great ocean
Compound: mahā + arṇava (ocean). Balarāma is likened to the ocean at parvan (full moon), tidal and overwhelming. Gauḍīyas read it as ananta-balarāma, the unbounded Saṅkarṣaṇa whose anger is cosmic but always controllable by Kṛṣṇa's touch.
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gṛhīta-pādaḥ
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whose feet were grasped
Compound: gṛhīta (taken) + pādaḥ (feet). Kṛṣṇa, who is touched by the gopīs' feet in Vraja, here Himself grasps His elder brother's feet — a stunning image of dāsya offered by Bhagavān to Bhagavān. The Lord teaches family-dharma by performing it.
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anusāntvitaḥ
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carefully pacified
Anu + √sāntv (to soothe). Balarāma is pacified — not by argument, but by sāntvana, the gentle word. Gauḍīyas mark this as the model for resolving conflict with seniors: not by overruling but by softening.
Balarāma was pacified by sweet words and brought out to realization. Another version has anvaśāmyata instead of anusāntvitaḥ.
Hearing the shouting or about the abduction, Balarāma, who gives all people joy as the Lord, became agitated. He could not control himself out of intense anger. An example of something undisturbed sometimes being disturbed is given. He was like the ocean during the full moon. This indicates also that he was very disturbed. He was pacified by Vasudeva and others. By sweet words he was calmed and came to his senses.
Balarāma rises like the full-moon ocean — high tide of anger from the elder brother. Kṛṣṇa, the smaller in years but greater in deliberation, falls at His feet. Whenever the family's mood swings, the younger Bhagavān bows; this is the rhythm by which the līlā keeps its peace.
The Gauḍīya parallel is exact: Nityānanda Prabhu, who is Balarāma Himself, sometimes acted in ways that scandalized smārta orthodoxy; Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is Kṛṣṇa, would soften the response by approaching Nityānanda with humility. The elder brother is honored even when the younger has already decided the matter.
Gauḍīyas read SB 10.86.11 as the cosmic original of this dynamic — Kṛṣṇa never overrides Balarāma openly, He pacifies. Authority is preserved, sanction is quietly upheld.
My note
Source: vedabase.io