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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.64.27-28

దేవదేవ జగన్నాథ గోవిన్ద పురుషోత్తమ । నారాయణ హృషీకేశ పుణ్యశ్లోకాచ్యుతావ్యయ ॥ ౨౭ ॥ అనుజానీహి మాం కృష్ణ యాన్తం దేవగతిం ప్రభో । యత్ర క్వ‍ాపి సతశ్చేతో భూయాన్మే త్వత్పదాస్పదమ్ ॥ ౨౮ ॥
deva-deva jagan-nātha
[deva-deva jagan-naatha]
govinda puruṣottama
[govinda purushottama]
nārāyaṇa hṛṣīkeśa
[naaraayana hrisheekesha]
puṇya-ślokācyutāvyaya
[punya-shlokaachyutaavyaya]
anujānīhi māṁ kṛṣṇa
[anujaaneehi maam krishna]
yāntaṁ deva-gatiṁ prabho
[yaantam deva-gatim prabho]
yatra kvāpi sataś ceto
[yatra kvaapi satash cheto]
bhūyān me tvat-padāspadam
[bhooyaan me tvat-padaaspadam]
deva - deva — O Lord of lords jagat — of the universe nātha — O master go - vinda — O Lord of the cows puruṣa - uttama — O Supreme Personality nārāyaṇa — O foundation of all living beings hṛṣīkeśa — O master of the senses puṇya - śloka — O You who are glorified in transcendental poetry acyuta — O infallible one avyaya — O undiminishing one anujānīhi — please give leave mām — to me kṛṣṇa — O Kṛṣṇa yāntam — who am going deva - gatim — to the world of the demigods prabho — O master yatra kva api — wherever sataḥ — residing cetaḥ — the mind bhūyāt — may it be me — my tvat — Your pada — of the feet āspadam — whose shelter .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
deva-deva jagan-nātha
deva - deva
O Lord of lords
jagat
of the universe
nātha
O master
govinda puruṣottama
go - vinda
O Lord of the cows
puruṣa - uttama
O Supreme Personality
nārāyaṇa hṛṣīkeśa
nārāyaṇa
O foundation of all living beings
hṛṣīkeśa
O master of the senses
puṇya-ślokācyutāvyaya
puṇya - śloka
O You who are glorified in transcendental poetry
acyuta
O infallible one
avyaya
O undiminishing one
anujānīhi māṁ kṛṣṇa
anujānīhi
please give leave
mām
to me
kṛṣṇa
O Kṛṣṇa
yāntaṁ deva-gatiṁ prabho
yāntam
who am going
deva - gatim
to the world of the demigods
prabho
O master
yatra kvāpi sataś ceto
yatra kva api
wherever
sataḥ
residing
cetaḥ
the mind
bhūyān me tvat-padāspadam
bhūyāt
may it be
me
my
tvat
Your
pada
of the feet
āspadam
whose shelter .
  • go - vinda — O finder of cows; chief of cows
    Go (cow) + vinda (finder). The name lands with special force here: the king's fall was caused by a misplaced cow, and the deliverer's own name is 'Govinda.' The poet's irony is exact — only the Lord of cows can clear a cow-offence.
  • puṇya - śloka — O You who are glorified in pious verses
    Puṇya (sanctifying) + śloka (verse). The name Kuntī uses repeatedly (SB 1.8). Hearing Kṛṣṇa's stories is itself puṇya — Nṛga, about to leave, names Him this so that the listening Yadus may catch what he has caught.
  • yatra kva api sataḥ — residing wherever
    Yatra (where) + kva api (anywhere at all) + sat (residing). The radical openness of the request: not 'take me to svarga' but 'wherever I land.' Gauḍīya śaraṇāgati's mature form — indifference to place, fixation on Kṛṣṇa-smṛti.
  • tvat - pada - āspadam — the shelter of Your feet
    Tvat (Your) + pada (feet) + āspada (resting place). The Bhāgavatam's preferred locative for the surrendered mind. Pāda-padma-niṣṭhā is the very target of Gauḍīya bhakti; Nṛga, leaving for svarga, asks for it explicitly as the only address that matters.
O Devadeva, Jagannātha, Govinda, Puruṣottama, Nārāyaṇa, Hṛṣīkeśa, Puṇyaśloka, Acyuta, Avyaya! O Kṛṣṇa, please permit me to depart for the world of the demigods. Wherever I live, O master, may my mind always take shelter of Your feet.

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī comments as follows on this verse: His faith emboldened upon receiving the Lord’s mercy and thus attaining the status of servitude, King Nṛga properly glorifies the Lord by chanting His names and then asks the Lord’s permission to take his leave. The spirit of his prayer is as follows: “You are Devadeva, God even of the gods, and Jagannātha, the master of the universe, so please be my master. O Govinda, please make me Your property with the same merciful glance You use to enchant the cows. You can do this because You are Puruṣottama, the supreme form of Godhead. O Nārāyaṇa, since You are the foundation of the living entities, please be my support, even though I am a bad living entity. O Hṛṣīkeśa, please make my senses Your own. O Puṇyaśloka, now You have become famous as the deliverer of Nṛga. O Acyuta, please never be lost to my mind. O Avyaya, You will never diminish in my mind.” Thus the great Bhāgavatam commentator Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī explains the purport of these verses.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
O Devadeva, Jagannātha, Govinda, Puruṣottama, Nārāyaṇa, Hṛṣīkeśa, Puṇyaśloka, Acyuta, Avyaya! O Kṛṣṇa, please permit me to depart for the world of the demigods. Wherever I live, O master, may my mind always take shelter of Your feet.
Commentary

Having attained the position of the servant by the Lord's mercy, by a sudden burst of faith, he begins to recite the lord's names and then asks permission to leave. "You are the supreme deva among devas (devadeva), and since you are the master of the whole universe, you should be my master as well (jagannatha). Please see me, your cow, (govinda) with your merciful glance, because you are the supreme among the forms of Visnu (purusottama). As you are the ruler of the jivas (narayana), you should rule over me, though I am a low jiva. Make my senses concentrate on you (hrsikesa). You are famous for having liberated Nrga (punyasloka). Do not leave my heart (acyuta). You will not suffer any loss in doing so (avyaya). May my mind have your feet as their object of meditation."

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

By seeing the Lord he developed faith in pure bhakti. Though he lacked previous acts of pure bhakti like hearing and chanting, he got to see the Lord. Preparing to request permission to depart, while praising the Lord’s mercy, in two verses he first prayed to the Lord by calling out his names in praise since nāma-kīrtana is dearest to the Lord. O Lord of the devatās! “In saying this, you who are insignificant pray with great rashness. Why are you not more restrained?” O Lord of the universe! I should pray to you since I have fallen in this material universe. “Among the people of this world, Brahmā and others are situated on Brahmaloka and have high positions. Why do you not go there?” O Govinda! By mercy you perform pastimes on earth (go). Now I should like to receive your mercy. “Even here on earth there are great souls.” O best person! Taking support of your mercy to the fallen, I pray for mercy. I do not take shelter of my own qualities. Moreover you are the shelter of all jīvas (nārāyaṇa). You are person who inspires my prayers (hṛṣīkeṣa). You are the moon glorified for such mercy (puṇyaśloka). You never fail to protect the miserable who have surrendered to you (acyuta). Although you always bestow what the devotees unlimited devotees desire, you are always complete (avyaya). Thus my prayer is correct. “But I am indifferent, and as Bhagavān I cannot show favor to you.” You are Svayam Bhagavān (Kṛṣṇa), kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam. Therefore you are complete (vibho, another version instead of prabho).

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Taking permission to leave, first he praises the Lord by reciting his names since saṅkīrtana is dear to the Lord. O lord of Brahmā and others devatās who are worshippable by the world. O lord of Nīlādri (jagannātha)! First you were worshipped by Brahmā, and then by the devatās. You appeared on earth as dāru-brhaman (govinda), directly the Lord! O supreme person (puruṣottama)! You are famous by that name in your kṣetra. You are the shelter of all jīvas, giving them food remnants rare to the devatās (nārāyaṇa). Not only do you have an external form, but internal also, by which you give all powers to your servants. O stimulator of the senses of your servants (hṛṣīkeśa)! Or it expresses the Lord’s affection for the devotees. You appeared with long hair once to make the words of your devotee true (hṛṣīkeśa). You are excellently glorified by poets or are famous for your excellent affection for devotees (puṇya-śloka). Why? You never fail to keep your word (acyuta). Ahaṁ bhakta-parādhīnaḥ: I am dependent on my devotees. (SB 9.4.63) Or you always reside at Nīlācala (acyuta). Moreover, your supply of mahāprasāda is never exhausted by giving (avyaya) since you are served by Mahālakṣmī. Or you are endowed with supreme powers (deva-deva). That is illustrated. You are the lord of all causes and effects in the universe (jagannātha). You thus appeared as the king of Gokula (govinda) to reveal your unlimited qualities. Therefore you are beyond the temporary and permanent (jīvas) (puruṣottama). yasmāt kṣaram atīto ’ham akṣarād api cottamaḥ | ato ’smi loke vede ca prathitaḥ puruṣottamaḥ || Because I am superior to the conditioned and liberated jīvas, I am celebrated in the Vedas and the smṛtis as the Supreme Person. BG 15.18 Or you are supreme among the three (Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva) because you are the supreme Lord (nārāyaṇa). You stimulate the senses of your devotees (hṛṣīkeśa). You reveal excellent qualities (puṇya-śloka), because you are full in all respects (acyuta). Or you never fail in your promise to protect your devotee (sakṛd eva prapanno yaḥ). You have unrestricted glories (avyaya). Or you do not decrease in giving yourself. Or in requesting to leave, thinking himself qualified with humility, thinking of his qualification he describes the Lord by glorifying him. Entering the universe (jaganātha), you are the Lord of us low people, though you are lord of lords (deva-deva), since you revealed unlimited qualities such as compassion by protecting the cows (govinda). Therefore you are best person (puruṣottama) served by great persons with unlimited qualities like skillfulness. Moreover, you are the shelter of all jīvas (nārāyaṇa), delivering even plants. You are moreover most beautiful (hṛṣīkeśa), but not only in form, but qualities. You distribute fame which produces purity in the universe (puṇya-śloka) by performing childhood pastimes. You do not fall from your powers even when performing childhood pastimes (acyuta).

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A list of names, said aloud, is its own kind of net to throw around Bhagavān. Nṛga strings nine of Kṛṣṇa's names together as he prepares to leave — each name another knot in the rope by which he asks his mind to remain tied to those feet wherever the next body lands.

Kuntī's prayer

Queen Kuntī, when Kṛṣṇa was about to depart from Hastināpura, did not ask for safety or kingdom or sons — she asked for repeated calamity, because calamity drove her to remember His name (SB 1.8). Her prayer is the same shape as Nṛga's: not 'keep me here' but 'wherever I am, let my mind be at Your feet.'

Gauḍīyas treat Kuntī-stuti and Nṛga's parting prayer as twin gold-standards of the devotee's farewell: invoke many names, ask for nothing but smaraṇa.

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