Verse 2.1.136

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.1.136:

इत्य् अकृत्रिम-सन्तापं विलापातुरम् अब्रवीत् ।
ब्राह्मणः सान्त्वयित्वा मां ह्रीणवद् विनयान्वितः ॥ १३६ ॥

ity akṛtrima-santāpaṃ vilāpāturam abravīt |
brāhmaṇaḥ sāntvayitvā māṃ hrīṇavad vinayānvitaḥ || 136 ||

iti–thus; akṛtrima–genuine; santāpam–distress; vilāpa-āturam–overcome by lamentation; abravīt–he said; brāhmaṇaḥ–the brāhmaṇa; sāntvayitvā–having consoled; mām–me; hrīṇa-vat–modestly; vinaya-anvitaḥ–with humility.

Seeing my distress and helpless weeping, the revered brāhmaṇa consoled me. Full of humility and feeling ashamed, he spoke.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “The brāhmaṇa worshiping Śālagrāma understood that my anguish and burning sorrow were not feigned, but were natural. I was not acting out of insincerity or other faults. When in anguish I spontaneously cried out, ‘The Lord must be suffering from hunger and thirst!’ he was especially embarrassed. When he saw my pained and helpless condition, he said, ‘I am poor; I cannot afford various types of food offerings.’” Actually, in that place it was very difficult to make offerings of foodstuffs. After witnessing Gopa-kumāra’s exceptional prema, the brāhmaṇa begins to humbly speak as follows.