Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.86.30
వాచా మధురయా ప్రీణన్నిదమాహాన్నతర్పితాన్ ।
పాదావఙ్కగతౌ విష్ణో: సంస్పృశఞ్ఛనకైర్ముదా ॥ ౩౦ ॥
vācā madhurayā prīṇann
[vaachaa madhurayaa preenann]
idam āhānna-tarpitān
[idam aahaanna-tarpitaan]
pādāv aṅka-gatau viṣṇoḥ
[paadaav anka-gatau vishnoh]
saṁspṛśañ chanakair mudā
[samsprishan chanakair mudaa]
Word-for-word
vācā
—
in a voice
madhurayā
—
gentle
prīṇan
—
trying to please them
idam
—
this
āha
—
he said
anna
—
with food
tarpitān
—
who had been gratified
pādau
—
the feet
aṅka
—
on his lap
gatau
—
situated
viṣṇoḥ
—
of Lord Kṛṣṇa
saṁspṛśan
—
massaging
śanakaiḥ
—
slowly
mudā
—
happily .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
vācā madhurayā prīṇann
vācā
in a voice
madhurayā
gentle
prīṇan
trying to please them
idam āhānna-tarpitān
idam
this
āha
he said
anna
with food
tarpitān
who had been gratified
pādāv aṅka-gatau viṣṇoḥ
pādau
the feet
aṅka
on his lap
gatau
situated
viṣṇoḥ
of Lord Kṛṣṇa
saṁspṛśañ chanakair mudā
saṁspṛśan
massaging
śanakaiḥ
slowly
mudā
happily .
Important Words
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madhurayā
—
gentle
Instrumental sg. fem. of madhura (sweet). Madhurā vāc — sweet speech. Bhagavān's own quality (BG 18.65 — speech that is satya, priya, hita); the bhakta inherits it by association. Gauḍīyas honor mādhurya as the supreme rasa, and even the brāhmaṇa-rāja's vocabulary takes on its tone.
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aṅka-gatau
—
situated on his lap
Compound: aṅka (lap) + gata (gone, situated). The lap is the seat of childhood — Yaśodā holds Kṛṣṇa in her aṅka in Vraja. Here Bahulāśva places Kṛṣṇa's feet on his aṅka: the king becomes a mother-figure for the Lord's feet. Rasa-mingling.
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saṁspṛśan
—
massaging
Present participle of sam + √spṛś (to touch fully). Spṛśya — touch — is the lowest of the five upacāras but, when offered to Bhagavān's feet, the most intimate. Gauḍīyas note that touching Kṛṣṇa's feet is the līlā Bhīṣma asks for at his death (SB 1.9.42).
When they had eaten to their full satisfaction, for their further pleasure the King began to speak slowly and in a gentle voice as he held Lord Viṣṇu’s feet in his lap and happily massaged them.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
When they had eaten to their full satisfaction, for their further pleasure the King began to speak slowly and in a gentle voice as he held Lord Viṣṇu's feet in his lap and happily massaged them.
Jīva Gosvāmī
Gauḍīya
Commentary
After they were satisfied with food, he pleased them with words like, “I am most fortunate. I am most successful by your presence.” Then he spoke as follows, first to the Lord. That is described in the next verse. The feet of Kṛṣṇa, who pervades the universe, went onto his lap, by the Lord’s mercy. He touched the feet with special skill (mudā), very gently, since Kṛṣṇa’s feet were most tender. Thus he just touched them.
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Analogy
The king holds Viṣṇu's feet in his own lap and begins to speak — softly, slowly, gently. Aiśvarya-rasa here approaches the tenderness of vātsalya: a king lowered to a child's posture by love.
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