Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.31.19

yat te sujāta-caranāmburuham staneshu

bhītāh śanaih priya dadhīmahi karkaśeshu

tenātavīm atasi tad vyathate na kim svit

kūrpādibhir bhramati dhīr bhavad-āyushām nah

SYNONYMS

yat — which; te — Your; su-jāta — very fine; carana-ambu-ruham — lotus feet; staneshu — on the breasts; bhītāh — being afraid; śanaih — gently; priya — O dear one; dadhīmahi — we place; karkaśeshu — rough; tena — with them; atavīm — the forest; atasi — You roam; tat — they; vyathate — are distressed; na — not; kim svit — we wonder; kūrpa-ādibhih — by small stones and so on; bhramati — flutters; dhīh — the mind; bhavat-āyushām — of those of whom Your Lordship is the very life; nah — of us.

TRANSLATION

O dearly beloved! Your lotus feet are so soft that we place them gently on our breasts, fearing that Your feet will be hurt. Our life rests only in You. Our minds, therefore, are filled with anxiety that Your tender feet might be wounded by pebbles as You roam about on the forest path.

PURPORT

The translation of this verse is from Śrīla Prabhupāda's English rendering of Caitanya-caritāmrita (Ādi 4.173).

Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Tenth Canto, Thirty-first Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "The Gopīs' Songs of Separation."

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