Verse Text
tatra harṣo, yathā prathame –
prīty-utphulla-mukhāḥ procur harṣa-gadgadayā girā |
pitaraṁ sarva-suhṛdam avitāram ivārbhakāḥ ||72||
Translation
An example of harṣa (joy) from the First Canto: The citizens began to speak to receive the Lord, with choked voices in joy, their faces cheerful with affection, just as wards welcome their guardian and father. SB 1.11.5
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
It is stated in the First Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Eleventh Chapter, verse 5, that when Lord Kṛṣṇa returned from the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra to His home at Dvārakā, all the residents of Dvārakā began to talk with Him, as a child talks lovingly to his father after the father’s return from foreign countries. This is an example of jubilation.