श्रीशुक उवाच अथैकदा द्वारवत्यां वसतो रामकृष्णयो: । सूर्योपराग: सुमहानासीत् कल्पक्षये यथा ॥ १ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca athaikadā dvāravatyāṁ vasato rāma-kṛṣṇayoḥ sūryoparāgaḥ su-mahān āsīt kalpa-kṣaye yathā
- śrī-śukaḥ uvāca
- Śukadeva Gosvāmī said
- atha
- then
- ekadā
- on one occasion
- dvāravatyām
- in Dvārakā
- vasatoḥ
- while They were living
- rāma-kṛṣṇayoḥ
- Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa
- sūrya
- of the sun
- uparāgaḥ
- an eclipse
- su-mahān
- very great
- āsīt
- there was
- kalpa
- of Lord Brahmā’s day
- kṣaye
- at the end
- yathā
- as if
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Once, while Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa were living in Dvārakā, there occurred a great eclipse of the sun, just as if the end of Lord Brahmā’s day had come.