A query regarding the term "चित्रस्थानीय"

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Vikram Majumdar

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Dec 16, 2025, 12:00:15 PM (2 days ago) Dec 16
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नमो विद्वद्भ्यः ।
I have a query regarding the term "चित्रस्थानीय" used as a visheshana for दिविषद् (देव / देवता) in a commentary to the following verse of Sri-Bhakti-Rasamrita-Sindhu.

बक-सोदर-दानवोदरे पूरतः प्रेक्ष्य विशन्तम् अच्युतम् |
दिविषन्-निकरो विषण्ण-धीः प्रकटं चित्रपटायते दिवि ||2.3.26 ||

Translation: “Seeing before them that Kṛṣṇa was entering the stomach of Aghāsura, who was the brother of Bakāsura, the devatās in the sky, overcome with sorrow, became still like painted pictures.”
 
Commentary: चित्रपटायते इति चित्र-स्थानीयानां दिविषदां निकरः पट-स्थानीयतया दृश्यते इत्यर्थः |

Although, I could understand how the word is relevent in case of SAmaveda and Rigveda vis-a-vis Yajurveda through the following quote of सायणभाष्य :
भित्तिस्थानीयो यजुर्वेदश्चित्रस्थानीयावितरौ' (तैत्तिरीयभाष्यभूमिका)

But in the above-mentioned commentary to the verse, दिविषनद् (देव) has been qualified as चित्रस्थानीय.

So, in what sense चित्रस्थानीय is applicable to देव? Whether in the sense of "intermediaries" or something like that OR कर्मकाण्डी in contrast to ज्ञानी or भक्त OR it just signifies the meaning that has been conveyed in the translation of the main verse.  

Also, has anywhere else any other commentator used चित्रस्थानीय for qualifying देव ?

May please elucidate.

Pranaam 
Vikram Majumdar

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