श्रीबादरायणिरुवाच एकादश्यां निराहार: समभ्यर्च्य जनार्दनम् । स्नातुं नन्दस्तु कालिन्द्यां द्वादश्यां जलमाविशत् ॥ १ ॥
śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca ekādaśyāṁ nirāhāraḥ samabhyarcya janārdanam snātuṁ nandas tu kālindyāṁ dvādaśyāṁ jalam āviśat
- śrī-bādarāyaṇiḥ uvāca
- Śrī Bādarāyaṇi (Śukadeva Gosvāmī) said
- ekādaśyām
- on Ekādaśī (the eleventh day of the lunar month)
- nirāhāraḥ
- fasting
- samabhyarcya
- having worshiped
- janārdanam
- Lord Janārdana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- snātum
- in order to bathe (before breaking the fast at its prescribed completion)
- nandaḥ
- Nanda Mahārāja
- tu
- but
- kālindyām
- in the river Yamunā
- dvādaśyām
- on the twelfth day
- jalam
- the water
- āviśat
- entered
Śrī Bādarāyaṇi said: Having worshiped Lord Janārdana and fasted on the Ekādaśī day, Nanda Mahārāja entered the water of the Kālindī on the Dvādaśī to take his bath.