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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.43.24

ఏష వై కిల దేవక్యాం జాతో నీతశ్చ గోకులమ్ । కాలమేతం వసన్ గూఢో వవృధే నన్దవేశ్మని ॥ ౨౪ ॥
eṣa vai kila devakyāṁ
[esha vai kila devakyaam]
jāto nītaś ca gokulam
[jaato neetash cha gokulam]
kālam etaṁ vasan gūḍho
[kaalam etam vasan goodho]
vavṛdhe nanda-veśmani
[vavridhe nanda-veshmani]
eṣaḥ — this (Kṛṣṇa) vai — certainly kila — indeed devakyām — from the womb of Devaki jātaḥ — born nītaḥ — brought ca — and gokulam — to Gokula kālam — time etam — this much vasan — living gūḍhaḥ — hidden vavṛdhe — He grew up nanda - veśmani — in the house of Nanda Mahārāja .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
eṣa vai kila devakyāṁ
eṣaḥ
this (Kṛṣṇa)
vai
certainly
kila
indeed
devakyām
from the womb of Devaki
jāto nītaś ca gokulam
jātaḥ
born
nītaḥ
brought
ca
and
gokulam
to Gokula
kālam etaṁ vasan gūḍho
kālam
time
etam
this much
vasan
living
gūḍhaḥ
hidden
vavṛdhe nanda-veśmani
vavṛdhe
He grew up
nanda - veśmani
in the house of Nanda Mahārāja .
  • devakyām — from the womb of Devakī
    Locative — Kṛṣṇa's mother. Gauḍīya tattva: Devakī is Pṛśni-svarūpa, the Vaikuṇṭha-mātā of an earlier kalpa, eternally Bhagavān's mother in vātsalya-rasa (SB 10.3.32–37). Mathurā does not yet know this depth but names her correctly by name.
  • gokulam — to Gokula
    Vraja's cow-village. The Gauḍīya summit: Gokula is the topmost realm — Brahma-saṁhitā 5.43 names Goloka above Vaikuṇṭha. The Mathurā citizens speak of it geographically; the Bhāgavatam reads it tattvically.
  • gūḍhaḥ — hidden
    'Concealed' — past participle. Bhagavān spent His childhood incognito (gūḍha-rūpa). The Gauḍīya doctrine of channaḥ kalau: Caitanya as the channa-avatāra of Kṛṣṇa is foreshadowed by the original concealment in Gokula.
  • nanda-veśmani — in the house of Nanda Mahārāja
    Nanda is paramount vātsalya-bhakta — Gauḍīya theology ranks him with Yaśodā at the topmost vātsalya. To grow up in Nanda's house is to be raised in the highest parental love available in the universe. A contiguous-token join of synonyms 'nanda' and 'veśmani'.
This one [Kṛṣṇa] took birth from mother Devakī and was brought to Gokula, where He has remained concealed all this time, growing up in the house of King Nanda.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
This one [Kṛṣṇa] took birth from mother Devakī and was brought to Gokula, where He has remained concealed all this time, growing up in the house of King Nanda.
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

The people spoke of the two boys generally, describing their qualities in order to show that they were the Supreme Lords. Now they speak of Kṛṣṇa as the chief person in six verses. Vai indicates that he is famous as appearing from Devakī. That person is the person standing before us now (eṣaḥ). Kila indicates certainty. Until this time (kālam etam) he has lived secretly in Nanda’s house and grown up there.

Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)
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Concepts
Jiva

The crowd traces the līlā backwards: born in Devakī, smuggled to Gokula, hidden as Nanda's son. Bhāgavata's narrative architecture in miniature — the prison, the river-crossing, the cowherd household — all confessed by the Mathurā audience in one verse, as if the city had always known.

Vasudeva crossing the Yamunā

On the night of Kṛṣṇa's birth (SB 10.3), Vasudeva carried the newborn through opened prison gates, past sleeping guards, across a Yamunā that parted of her own accord. Śeṣa stretched His hood overhead against the monsoon rain. He laid the child beside Yaśodā in Gokula and returned with Nanda's just-born daughter.

The Mathurā citizens in this verse are recalling that very night. What had been the most concealed of all transmissions — devakyāṁ jātaḥ, nītaḥ ca gokulam — is now sung in the open by ordinary citizens, because Bhagavān's līlā is finally complete enough to be named. The Gauḍīya reading: kṛṣṇa-prema cannot stay private once it has matured; even Mathurā breaks into kīrtana.

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