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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.24

నమస్తస్మై భగవతే వాసుదేవాయ వేధసే । పపుర్జ్ఞానమయం సౌమ్యా యన్ముఖామ్బురుహాసవమ్ ॥ ౨౪ ॥
namas tasmai bhagavate
[namas tasmai bhagavate]
vāsudevāya vedhase
[vaasudevaaya vedhase]
papur jṣānam ayaṁ saumyā
[papur jshaanam ayam saumyaa]
yan-mukhāmburuhāsavam
[yan-mukhaamburuhaasavam]
namaḥ — my obeisances tasmai — unto Him bhagavate — unto the Personality of Godhead vāsudevāya — unto Vāsudeva or His incarnations vedhase — the compiler of the Vedic literatures papuḥ — drunk jṣānam — knowledge ayam — this Vedic knowledge saumyāḥ — the devotees, especially the consorts of Lord Kṛṣṇa yat — from whose mukha-amburuha — the lotuslike mouth āsavam — nectar from His mouth.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
namas tasmai bhagavate
namaḥ
my obeisances
tasmai
unto Him
bhagavate
unto the Personality of Godhead
vāsudevāya vedhase
vāsudevāya
unto Vāsudeva or His incarnations
vedhase
the compiler of the Vedic literatures
papur jṣānam ayaṁ saumyā
papuḥ
drunk
jṣānam
knowledge
ayam
this Vedic knowledge
saumyāḥ
the devotees, especially the consorts of Lord Kṛṣṇa
yan-mukhāmburuhāsavam
yat
from whose
mukha-amburuha
the lotuslike mouth
āsavam
nectar from His mouth.
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of Vāsudeva who compiled the Vedic scriptures. The pure devotees drink up the nectarean transcendental knowledge dropping from the lotuslike mouth of the Lord.

In pursuance of the specific utterance vedhase, or “the compiler of the system of transcendental knowledge,” Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī has commented that the respectful obeisances are offered to Śrīla Vyāsadeva, who is the incarnation of Vāsudeva. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has agreed to this, but Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has made a further advance, namely that the nectar from the mouth of Lord Kṛṣṇa is transferred to His different consorts, and thus they learn the finer arts of music, dance, dressing, decorations and all such things which are relished by the Lord. Such music, dance and decorations enjoyed by the Lord are certainly not anything mundane, because the Lord is addressed in the very beginning as para, or transcendental. This transcendental knowledge is unknown to the forgotten conditioned souls. Śrīla Vyāsadeva, who is the incarnation of the Lord, thus compiled the Vedic literatures to revive the lost memory of the conditioned souls about their eternal relation with the Lord. One should therefore try to understand the Vedic scriptures, or the nectar transferred by the Lord to His consorts in the conjugal humor, from the lotuslike mouth of Vyāsadeva or Śukadeva. By gradual development of transcendental knowledge, one can rise to the stage of the transcendental arts of music and dance displayed by the Lord in His rāsa-līlā. But without having the Vedic knowledge one can hardly understand the transcendental nature of the Lord’s rāsa dance and music. The pure devotees of the Lord, however, can equally relish the nectar in the form of the profound philosophical discourses and in the form of kissing by the Lord in the rāsa dance, as there is no mundane distinction between the two.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
I offer respects to the avatāra of Vāsudeva, Vyāsadeva, the writer of scriptures, whose lotus mouth nectar, topics about Kṛṣṇa, filled with knowledge, the devotees drink.
Commentary

He offers respects to his guru Vyāsadeva, who is the avatāra of Vāsudeva (vāsudevāya), who is the maker of scriptures (vedhase), whose lotus mouth nectar, filled with knowledge, the devotees drink. Or Vāsudeva can mean Kṛṣṇa. Then saumyāḥ refers to gopīs of Kṛṣṇa. Jṣānam means filled with knowledge. Just by drinking the nectar of his lotus mouth, filled with the most extraordinary knowledge, filled with ornaments, rasa, and skill in dancing, singing, music, and art, which they knew nothing about, the gopīs attained full realization of it. Let us, following them, also attain that knowledge. This is the confidential meaning.

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