Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.20.29
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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dadhi-odanam
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rice mixed with yogurt
Compound: dadhi (yogurt) + odana (boiled rice). The most homely meal of Vraja. Gauḍīyas treasure dadhi-odana as Kṛṣṇa's affection-food — what mothers send from home. Caitanya's cīḍā-dadhi feast is its descendant.
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saṅkarṣaṇa-anvitaḥ
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accompanied by Saṅkarṣaṇa (Balarāma)
Compound: Saṅkarṣaṇa (one who draws together — Balarāma) + anvita (accompanied). Saṅkarṣaṇa is Balarāma's expansion-name in the catur-vyūha. The brothers eat side by side; this is the picture Gauḍīyas hold.
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salila-antike
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near the water
Compound: salila (water) + antika (near). Probably the Yamunā. The picnic-spot is precisely placed; Gauḍīyas remember that every detail of Vraja has been identified by the Six Gosvāmīs.
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sambhojanīyaiḥ
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with those who regularly ate with Him
From sam + √bhuj — co-eaters. There is a named set of boys who share Kṛṣṇa's plate. Sakhya-rasa is structurally about co-eating; the verse marks the technical category.
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śīlāyām
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on a flat stone
Locative of śilā — slab, stone. Vraja's many flat rocks are līlā-furniture. Govardhana itself becomes one; here a smaller cousin serves as table.
People from his house brought food to a place called "Chak" . Krsna sat on a stone slab near the water. Even today people can see that eating place on the bank of a kunda.
He took food brought by his relatives, or brought by friends who were nearby. He ate with cowherds who were qualified to eat with him, being similar in nature (saṁbhojanīyaiḥ). Sam means together. Or saṁbhojanīyaiḥ it can mean “together with condiments.” Balarāma was in their midst.
The food brought with them, packed by Yaśodā, was brought close by the boys at the appropriate time or was offered by each of them as a gift to Kṛṣṇa (samānītam), because it was plentiful and sweet. He ate on a stone plate, since the food was liquid with plentiful yogurt and because the stone became beautiful after being cleansed by the showers. He ate near the water. In that season there was water everywhere. Or he chose a spot near the water in order to drink water. He had all the boys eat, since they ate together on one stone plate. He made them sit down in one place. Balarāma made them come together as one (saṅkarṣaṇa) since the two boys were not separate from the other cowherds. Or śīlāyām in the singular can mean many stone plates since there was not enough room on one plate. Kṛṣṇa made the boys sit in rows, putting Balarāma in the center, and personally served the food and made them eat. Then he ate.
- What 'rice and yogurt' from home travels with me into my work, and do I treat it as His meal?
- Whose preparation am I eating without acknowledgment?
On a flat stone by the water Kṛṣṇa eats yogurt-rice with His brother and the cowherd boys — the most ordinary picnic in the world, set in the middle of the Bhāgavatam. Sakhya-rasa lives in this verse. The Lord of all sacrifices accepts dadhi-odana from a friend's tiffin and eats sitting on a rock; no greater śloka has ever been needed to define the highest theology.
Nityānanda Prabhu, dancing at Pāṇihāṭi, asked Raghunātha dāsa to feed everyone cīḍā and dadhi — and the Lord Himself ate alongside (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya 6). The mood was exactly SB 10.20.29 — flat ground, simple food, friends in a circle, Bhagavān at the centre.
Gauḍīyas treat Pāṇihāṭi as the rebirth of this Vraja-verse. The picnic on the stone never ended; it moved to a riverbank in Bengal.
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Source: vedabase.io