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.