Devanagari
इति प्रवालस्तबकफलपुष्पदलोत्करै: ।
तरूणां नम्रशाखानां मध्यतो यमुनां गत: ॥ ३६ ॥
Verse text
iti pravāla-stabaka-
phala-puṣpa-dalotkaraiḥ
tarūṇāṁ namra-śākhānāṁ
madhyato yamunāṁ gataḥ
Synonyms
iti
—
thus speaking
;
pravāla
—
of new branches
;
stabaka
—
by the clusters
;
phala
—
of fruit
;
puṣpa
—
flowers
;
dala
—
and leaves
;
utkaraiḥ
—
by the abundance
;
tarūṇām
—
of the trees
;
namra
—
bowed down
;
śākhānām
—
whose branches
;
madhyataḥ
—
from within the midst
;
yamunām
—
the Yamunā River
;
gataḥ
—
He came upon .
Translation
Thus moving among the trees, whose branches were bent low by their abundance of twigs, fruits, flowers and leaves, Lord Kṛṣṇa came to the Yamunā River.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Thus moving among the trees, whose branches were bent low by their abundance of twigs, fruits, flowers and leaves, Lord Kṛṣṇa came to the Yamunā River.
KB 10.22.36
Thus the Supreme Personality of Godhead walked on the bank of the Yamunā, touching the leaves of the trees and their fruits, flowers and twigs and praising their glorious welfare activities. Different people may accept certain welfare activities to be beneficial for human society, according to their own views, but the welfare activity that can be rendered to people in general, for eternal benefit, is the spreading of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Everyone should be prepared to propagate this movement. As instructed by Lord Caitanya, one should be humbler than the grass on the ground and more tolerant than the tree. The toleration of the tree is explained by Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, and those who are engaged in the preaching of Kṛṣṇa consciousness should learn lessons from the teachings of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya through Their direct disciplic succession.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
They passed among the trees with branches heavy with twigs fruit flowers and leaves.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Stavaka means bunches of flower. Madhyataḥ means “on a middle road,” since it was sheltered from the sun.
Purport (Sanatana Goswami)
Stavaka means bunches of flowers and leaves. Madhyataḥ means “on a middle road,” since it was sheltered from the sun. He went a long way in this manner. Because of this, later it is mentioned that they became hungry. Since they could have relieved their hunger from fruits, the trees on the road had inedible fruits like the aśoka tree.