vraje jyeá¹hÄ, khuá¸Ä, mÄmÄ, pisÄdi gopa-gaṇa
sakhÄ-vá¹›nda sabÄra ghare dvisandhyÄ-bhojana
vraje - at Vá¹›ndÄvana; jyeá¹hÄ - the father's elder brothers; khuá¸Ä - the father's younger brothers; mÄmÄ - the mother's brothers; pisÄ - the husbands of aunts; Ädi - and so on; gopa-gaṇa - cowherd men; sakhÄ-vá¹›nda - hundreds of friends; sabÄra - of all of them; ghare - in the houses; dvi-sandhyÄ - twice a day; bhojana - eating.
“In Vá¹›ndÄvana You also have Your father’s elder brothers, Your father’s younger brothers, maternal uncles, husbands of Your father’s sisters and many cowherd men. There are also cowherd boyfriends, and You eat twice a day, morning and evening, in the house of each and every one.
In DvÄrakÄ, Lord Kṛṣṇa had eighteen mothers — DevakÄ«, Rohiṇī and others. Besides these was His foster mother, YaÅ›odÄ, in Vá¹›ndÄvana. Lord Kṛṣṇa also had many uncles. As stated by ÅšrÄ«la RÅ«pa GosvÄmÄ« in his Bá¹›hat ÅšrÄ« ÅšrÄ« RÄdhÄ-kṛṣṇa-gaṇoddeÅ›a-dÄ«pikÄ (32), upanando ’bhinandaÅ› ca pitá¹›vyau pÅ«rva-jau pituḥ: “The elder brothers of Nanda MahÄrÄja were Upananda and Abhinanda.†Similarly, in the same verse the names of the younger brothers of Nanda MahÄrÄja are given: pitá¹›vyau tu kanÄ«yÄá¹sau syÄtÄá¹ sannanda-nandanau. “Sannanda and Nandana [also known as Sunanda and PÄṇá¸ava] were the younger brothers of Kṛṣṇa’s father, Nanda MahÄrÄja.†ŚrÄ« Kṛṣṇa’s maternal uncles are also described in this book (in verse 46): yaÅ›odhara-yaÅ›odeva-sudevÄdyÄs tu mÄtulÄḥ. “YaÅ›odhara, YaÅ›odeva and Sudeva were the maternal uncles of Kṛṣṇa.†Also mentioned in the RÄdhÄ-kṛṣṇa-gaṇoddeÅ›a-dÄ«pikÄ (38) are Kṛṣṇa’s uncles who were the husbands of Nanda MahÄrÄja’s sisters: mahÄnÄ«laḥ sunÄ«laÅ› ca ramaṇÄv etayoḥ kramÄt. “MahÄnÄ«la and SunÄ«la are the husbands of Kṛṣṇa’s aunts.â€
