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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.13.6

అత్ర భోక్తవ్యమస్మాభిర్దివారూఢం క్షుధార్దితా: । వత్సా: సమీపేఽప: పీత్వా చరన్తు శనకైస్తృణమ్ ॥ ౬ ॥
atra bhoktavyam asmābhir
[atra bhoktavyam asmaabhir]
divārūḍhaṁ kṣudhārditāḥ
[divaaroodham kshudhaarditaah]
vatsāḥ samīpe ’paḥ pītvā
[vatsaah sameepe ’pah peetvaa]
carantu śanakais tṛṇam
[charantu shanakais trinam]
Word-for-word
atra — here, on this spot bhoktavyam — our lunch should be eaten asmābhiḥ — by us diva - ārūḍham — it is very late now kṣudhā arditāḥ — we are fatigued with hunger vatsāḥ — the calves samīpe — nearby apaḥ — water pītvā — after drinking carantu — let them eat śanakaiḥ — slowly tṛṇam — the grasses .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
atra bhoktavyam asmābhir
atra
here, on this spot
bhoktavyam
our lunch should be eaten
asmābhiḥ
by us
divārūḍhaṁ kṣudhārditāḥ
diva - ārūḍham
it is very late now
kṣudhā arditāḥ
we are fatigued with hunger
vatsāḥ samīpe ’paḥ pītvā
vatsāḥ
the calves
samīpe
nearby
apaḥ
water
pītvā
after drinking
carantu śanakais tṛṇam
carantu
let them eat
śanakaiḥ
slowly
tṛṇam
the grasses .
Important Words
  • bhoktavyam — should be eaten
    Gerundive of √bhuj. The same root that yields bhakta — the eater is bound to the food in a relation of dependence. Gauḍīyas hear in bhuj a double register: ordinary eating and the soul's eating of rasa.
  • diva-ārūḍham — the day is well advanced
    Compound: diva (day) + ārūḍham (mounted, ascended). Time itself has 'climbed up.' Vraja's līlā is structured by ordinary time — morning, noon, evening — and yet that ordinary time is also nitya, eternally circling.
  • kṣudhā-arditāḥ — tormented by hunger
    Compound: kṣudh (hunger) + ardita (afflicted). Kṛṣṇa names the boys' real bodily condition. Gauḍīyas read this verse against any aestheticized Vraja: the boys are hungry, the calves thirsty — the līlā never floats above the body.
  • vatsāḥ — the calves
    The chapter's central word. The calves are not props but co-actors in the līlā — Kṛṣṇa names their welfare before His own meal. Their later disappearance and Kṛṣṇa's expansion into them is foreshadowed by this tender, ordinary mention.
  • śanakaiḥ — slowly
    Adverb from √śam (to be quiet). Even the calves' eating is slow, unhurried. Vraja's rhythm — set by the Lord's own preference — refuses urgency. Gauḍīyas mark this as the inverse of the karmī's frantic pace.
I think we should take our lunch here, since we are already hungry because the time is very late. Here the calves may drink water and go slowly here and there and eat the grass.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
I think we should take our lunch here, since we are already hungry because the time is very late. Here the calves may drink water and go slowly here and there and eat the grass.
Commentary

The sun has risen up high in the sky (diva ruddham) .

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

O hungry boys! Or, since you are hungry we should eat here, because the day is getting late. They were delayed because of entering Agha’s mouth. Or, the hungry calves should drink water and eat grass. We should not restrict them so that we can happily eat. Let them graze on the grass slowly, since they will be full from drinking the water. Or, so that we can eat comfortably, let them graze nearby slowly. Let them graze as they like later, but now they should be kept close by.

Related values & verses
Related values
Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)
Related verses
BG 2.12 BG 10.3 BG 5.4 BG 10.1 SB 1.2BG 5.18 BG 3.30 BG 7.1 BG 6.5 BG 2.66 BG 1.1 BG 16.1 BG 2.62 BG 12.1 BG 13.3 BG 15.7
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Personal Guidance
Analogy

Like a mother who knows the children are hungry before they say so and announces lunch before the complaint rises — Kṛṣṇa as friend reads the boys' hunger and the calves' thirst at once, arranging both with a single sentence. Compassion in Vraja is anticipatory.

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