Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.24.26
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pacyantām
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let them be cooked
Passive imperative from √pac — to cook. The voice keeps the elders as the doers; Kṛṣṇa is still issuing requests in his father's house, not commands. Vātsalya etiquette is preserved even at the height of the chapter's reform.
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pākāḥ
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cooked dishes
Nominative plural of pāka — cooked food. The whole sequence will land on prasāda in later tradition; Gauḍīya kitchens descend in spirit from this verse, where cooking-for-the-Lord first appears as the central act of a Vraja yajña.
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pāyasa - ādayaḥ
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sweet rice and other dishes
Compound: pāyasa (sweet rice pudding) + ādi (etc.). Pāyasa is the iconic temple sweet from the Vedic period onwards. The verse plants the seed of Annakūṭa — the mountain of food — which Vraja still offers Govardhana to this day.
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saṁyāva - āpūpa
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fancy cakes and round cakes
Compound: saṁyāva (a kind of fried sweet) + āpūpa (a kind of cake). Specific traditional sweets. Gauḍīya note: the verse refuses abstraction; it names the foods by name. Bhakti loves the concrete.
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sarva - dohaḥ
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all the milk produce
Compound: sarva (all) + doha (milking). Every milk-yield of Vraja is to be brought. The cows themselves are participating: their work becomes the substance of the offering. Worship and livelihood, in Vraja, are one flowing system.
The word sūpa indicates bean broth and also liquid vegetables. Thus to celebrate the Govardhana-pūjā, Lord Kṛṣṇa called for hot preparations such as soup, cold preparations like sweet rice, and all types of milk products.
Paka refers to rice and vegetables which are cooked. Supantah refers to hot soups and payasadayah refers to cool items. Samyavah refers to sweets made of wheat flour. Sarva doha refers to the products of the cow such as milk and yoghurt that all the vrajavasis possessed.
The sacrifice would be particularly accomplished by the materials from Indra’s sacrifice. With this intention the various ingredients are listed in four verses. Rice and vegetables (pākāḥ) should be cooked. Sūpa indicates condiments and sauces. Ādayaḥ indicates brought from the home. They are listed separately to show abundance. Hari-vaṁśa says tri-rātraṁ caiva sandohaḥ sarva-ghoṣasya gṛhyatām: you should bring all the milk accumulated for three days from all the cowherds. Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the milk should come in the beginning and soup at the end because of the prominence given to milk.
The sacrifice would be particularly accomplished by the materials from Indra’s sacrifice. With this intention the various ingredients are listed in four verses. Rice and vegetables (pākāḥ) should be cooked. Sūpa indicates condiments and sauces. Ādayaḥ indicates brought from the home. The ingredients are listed separately to show abundance. Dohaḥ refers to milk produces like milk, yogurt and ghee. The word ca means definitely. Or ca indicates more than what was listed were prepared. Sarva means all the milk products or the milk of all the cows and cowherds. Sarva-ghoṣasya sandohaḥ kriyatām kiṁ vicāryate All the cowherds should milk the cows. Viṣṇu Purāṇa
- Where have I made my devotional life too thin to be a feast?
- What lavish small festival could I cook for the Lord this season?
A mother instructed to prepare a feast for her favorite child empties the larder and cooks everything she has — rice, soups, cakes, butter, cream. Kṛṣṇa, designing His own first feast in Vraja, calls for the same maximalism. Govardhana-pūjā is not austere; it is delight piled high, because the recipient is delight Himself.
Throughout chapter 8 and 9 we see Yaśodā arrange feast after feast for Kṛṣṇa — rice and yogurt and butter and pāyasa, all heaped on His plate (SB 10.8–9). The Bhāgavatam's Vraja-līlā has a sustained ethic of abundance directed at Bhagavān.
Kṛṣṇa here writes that ethic into a public ritual: 'let many different kinds of food be cooked.' What was private vātsalya in His mother's kitchen becomes communal yajña on the hill.
My note
Source: vedabase.io