Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.11.17
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pratīkṣate
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is waiting
Prati-īkṣ — to look toward, await. Nanda is actively looking-out-for, not merely delayed. The Gauḍīya reading: Bhagavān is also pratīkṣamāṇa — He waits for His devotees too. Nanda's waiting is the human face of Kṛṣṇa's own.
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dāśārha
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O Balarāma (descendant of Daśārha)
Dāśārha — of the Daśārha line (Yadu dynasty). The honorific names Balarāma's noble lineage, dignifying the call. Gauḍīya commentators: even in the simplest household summons, lineage is preserved — bhakti does not abolish vaṁśa but completes it.
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vraja - adhipaḥ
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the King of Vraja
Adhipa — overlord, king. Nanda is Vraja's king and also Kṛṣṇa's father. The Gauḍīya theology: in Vraja, kingship and fatherhood collapse into one role because the king's child is the Supreme. Adhipatya is service when the throne serves Kṛṣṇa.
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sva - gṛhān
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to their own homes
Sva-gṛha — one's own home. The verse closes with Yaśodā ensuring the other boys go home — care for them is not optional politeness but part of her vātsalya. Gauḍīya teaching: real love does not absorb the beloved away from his other duties; it sends everyone home cared-for.
It appears that Nanda Mahārāja regularly took his food with his two sons, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. Yaśodā told the other boys, “Now you should go to your homes.” Father and son generally sit together, so mother Yaśodā requested Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma to return, and she advised the other boys to go home so that their parents would not have to wait for them.
"Your father is sitting but without you he cannot eat (bhoksyaman.) Why are you giving your father hunger pangs? All you boys should go to your houses. Your parents are also in difficulty like us. Please make them happy." She said all this to stop them from playing.
O descendent of Dāśārha! Nanda, thinking highly of you as the son of his friend, will not eat without you. Make Rohiṇī and myself happy, or make Nanda and myself happy. Seeing Balarāma absorbed in playing out of prema for Kṛṣṇa, who was attached to playing, she ordered the other boys to go home. She did not mention the individual homes of the other boys (sva-sva-gṛheṣu) because she spoke quickly. Seeing the other boys did not go home because of their affection for Kṛṣṇa, she falsely called him for a special reason.
- Show up for one shared family meal today without phone, work, or distraction — simply eat together as Kṛṣṇa did with Nanda Mahārāja.
- Notice when you keep parents or housemates waiting on small things, and refuse the self-importance that says your task matters more than their peace of mind.
- Before leaving any gathering today, send the others home gently and on time, the way Yaśodā did — care for them includes not letting their people worry.
Even the universe's host pauses to be present at His own father's plate — the king of the entire dynasty waits for his sons to come home to eat, and the proper order of the household holds even Kṛṣṇa within it. Nanda's pratīkṣā (waiting) is itself a form of seva that the Lord honors by coming.
Throughout Vraja-līlā, Kṛṣṇa shares meals with Nanda Mahārāja in a way He does not later share with anyone in Mathurā or Dvārakā. The Gauḍīya saints (especially Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī in Vraja-vilāsa-stava) meditate on these meals as among the most poignant rasa-tableaux of all līlā.
The verse's small instruction — Nanda is waiting; come — is the household scaffolding inside which the highest rasa is staged. Gauḍīya tradition: the seemingly mundane discipline (eating at the right time, with the right elder) is the trellis on which prema climbs. Without trellis, the vine falls.
My note
Source: vedabase.io