Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.47.60

nāyam śriyo 'ńga u nitānta-rateh prasādah

svar-yoshitām nalina-gandha-rucām kuto 'nyāh

rāsotsave 'sya bhuja-danda-grihīta-kantha-

labdhāśishām ya udagād vraja-vallabhīnām

SYNONYMS

na — not; ayam — this; śriyah — of the goddess of fortune; ańge — on the chest; u — alas; nitānta-rateh — who is very intimately related; prasādah — the favor; svah — of the heavenly planets; yoshitām — of women; nalina — of the lotus flower; gandha — having the aroma; rucām — and bodily luster; kutah — much less; anyāh — others; rasa-utsave — in the festival of the rāsa dance; asya — of Lord Śrī Krishna; bhuja-danda — by the arms; grihīta — embraced; kantha — their necks; labdha-āśishām — who achieved such a blessing; yah — which; udagāt — became manifest; vraja-vallabhīnām — of the beautiful gopīs, the transcendental girls of Vrajabhūmi.

TRANSLATION

When Lord Śrī Krishna was dancing with the gopīs in the rāsa-līlā, the gopīs were embraced by the arms of the Lord. This transcendental favor was never bestowed upon the goddess of fortune or other consorts in the spiritual world. Indeed, never was such a thing even imagined by the most beautiful girls in the heavenly planets, whose bodily luster and aroma resemble the lotus flower. And what to speak of worldly women who are very beautiful according to material estimation?

PURPORT

The word meanings and translation for this verse are taken from Śrīla Prabhupāda's English rendering of Caitanya-caritāmrita (Madhya 8.80).

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī comments as follows: Lord Krishna, the best of all avatāras, exists on the highest platform of purity and morality, and thus He always remained praiseworthy by all, even while accepting worldly criticism for His cow-tending, wandering in the forest, taking meals with young monkeys, stealing yogurt, seducing other men's wives, and so on. Similarly, the gopīs, who are constituted of the Lord's pleasure potency, achieved the highest standard of purity and auspiciousness, even in comparison to the goddesses of fortune, and thus the gopīs are supremely glorious, even though they were criticized by worldly people because they were mere cowherd women living in the forest and behaving in an apparently improper way.

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