Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 28: Krsna Rescues Nanda Maharaja from the Abode of Varuna

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.28.1

sri-badarayanir uvaca

ekadasyam niraharah

samabhyarcya janardanam

snatum nandas tu kalindyam

dvadasyam jalam avisat

SYNONYMS

sri-badarayanih uvaca -- Sri Badarayani (Sukadeva Gosvami) said; ekadasyam -- on Ekadasi (the eleventh day of the lunar month); niraharah -- fasting; samabhyarcya -- having worshiped; janardanam -- Lord Janardana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; snatum -- in order to bathe (before breaking the fast at its prescribed completion); nandah -- Nanda Maharaja; tu -- but; kalindyam -- in the river Yamuna; dvadasyam -- on the twelfth day; jalam -- the water; avisat -- entered.

TRANSLATION

Sri Badarayani said: Having worshiped Lord Janardana and fasted on the Ekadasi day, Nanda Maharaja entered the water of the Kalindi on the Dvadasi to take his bath.

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