Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.46.15
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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parama - annena
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with first-class food
Compound: parama (supreme) + anna (food). For a cowherd village, parama-anna means the best of milk, butter, curd, rice — Vraja's particular bhojana. The chapter's later focus on the morning's churning (44-46) is anticipated by this evening's parama-anna.
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kaśipau
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on a nice bed
Locative of kaśipu — a soft cushion or couch. Same word that names the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu (he-who-likes-soft-beds). Here it returns to its innocent meaning: Vraja's hospitality, not Daitya luxury.
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śramam
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fatigue
Accusative of śrama. The verse names the very state Nanda removes before asking his question — Uddhava's body is restored before his words are asked of him. Bhakti-etiquette: never extract speech from a tired guest.
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pāda - saṁvāhana
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foot-massage
Compound: pāda (foot) + saṁvāhana (rubbing). In classical India this service is performed by a junior to a senior — Nanda the elder king performing it on Uddhava the younger guest is a deliberate inversion. The vātsalya-frame supersedes age and rank.
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paryapṛcchat
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he inquired
Imperfect of pari-√prach. The prefix pari- intensifies: not a casual question but a full surrounding inquiry. The next twelve verses are the unfolding of this single paryapṛcchat — Nanda's heart opening verse by verse.
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sukham
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comfortably
Adverbial accusative of sukha. Uddhava is comfortable when the questions begin. The very vocabulary will be contradicted by the end of the conversation, when Nanda himself becomes prema-prasara-vihvalaḥ (27) — comfort yields to overwhelm.
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī mentions that Nanda had a servant massage Uddhava’s feet, since Uddhava was Nanda’s nephew.
Nanda fed Uddhava rice cooked in milk. From the day that Krsna had departed from Mathura, the kitchens of the people of Vraja were left unswept and dirty, filled with leaves, grass, dust and spider webs. The people of Vraja maintained their lives by buttermilk, yogurt and milk given by neighbors. They simply lamented, "We have died." But on this particular day, understanding Nanda’s anxiety that when Uddhava comes he should not suffer from hunger, one brahmana accompanying Nanda cooked a quantity of broken rice with milk for one person. Massaging Uddhava’s feet was performed by a servant, since Uddhava was his nephew and therefore an inferior.
He fed him rice boiled in milk or the best rice. Nanda offered him a bed and, when he spread out his body, he made him relax. He removed his fatigue by massaging his feet. When he was seated comfortably (sukham) he inquired from him.
He fed Uddhava rice because it was the principal food, as well as dairy products and other foods. He was seated on a bed or stretched his body out on the bed. He had others massage his feet or personally did it, and fanned him and offered sandalwood. When Uddhava’s fatigue was gone, Nanda inquired with lamentation.
Before any heavy question is asked, the body of the messenger is fed, seated, massaged. Nanda does not blurt out 'How is my son?' — he prepares the field. Gauḍīya hospitality teaches: the question that comes from a comfortable guest is heard better than the one wrenched from an exhausted one.
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Source: vedabase.io