Devanagari
भगवांस्तदभिप्रेत्य द्वयो: प्रियचिकीर्षया ।
उभयोराविशद् गेहमुभाभ्यां तदलक्षित: ॥ २६ ॥
Verse text
bhagavāṁs tad abhipretya
dvayoḥ priya-cikīrṣayā
ubhayor āviśad geham
ubhābhyāṁ tad-alakṣitaḥ
Synonyms
bhagavān
—
the Supreme Lord
;
tat
—
this
;
abhipretya
—
accepting
;
dvayoḥ
—
of the two of them
;
priya
—
the pleasing
;
cikīrṣayā
—
wishing to do
;
ubhayoḥ
—
of both
;
āviśat
—
He entered
;
geham
—
the houses
;
ubhābhyām
—
to both
;
tat
—
in that (entering of the other’s house)
;
alakṣitaḥ
—
unseen .
Translation
Wanting to please them both, the Lord accepted both their invitations. Thus He simultaneously went to both homes, and neither could see Him entering the other’s house.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Wanting to please them both, the Lord accepted both their invitations. Thus He simultaneously went to both homes, and neither could see Him entering the other's house.
KB 10.86.26
In order to please both of them, Lord Kṛṣṇa expanded Himself into two and went to the houses of each one of them; yet neither the King nor the brāhmaṇa could understand that the Lord had gone to the house of the other. Both thought that the Lord had gone only to his own house. That He and His companions were present in both houses, although both the brāhmaṇa and the King thought He was present in one house only, is another opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This opulence is described in the revealed scriptures as vaibhava-prakāśa. When Lord Kṛṣṇa married sixteen thousand wives, He expanded Himself into sixteen thousand forms, each one of them as powerful as He Himself. Similarly, in Vṛndāvana, when Brahmā stole Kṛṣṇa’s calves and cowherd boys, Kṛṣṇa expanded Himself into many new calves and boys.
Purport
According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Kṛṣṇa visited Śrutadeva and Bahulāśva at the same time by manifesting Himself in duplicate forms, along with the sages. Thus King Bahulāśva thought that Lord Kṛṣṇa had come only to his house, leaving Śrutadeva to return home disappointed, while Śrutadeva believed that just the reverse was the case.
In
Kṛṣṇa,
Śrīla Prabhupāda remarks: “That [Lord Kṛṣṇa] and His companions were present in both houses, although both the
brāhmaṇa
and the King thought He was present in his house only, is another opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This opulence is described in the revealed scriptures as
vaibhava-prakāśa.
Similarly, when Lord Kṛṣṇa married sixteen thousand wives, He also expanded Himself into sixteen thousand forms, each one of them as powerful as He Himself. Similarly, in Vṛndāvana, when Brahmā stole away Kṛṣṇa’s cows, calves and cowherd boys, Kṛṣṇa expanded Himself into many new cows, calves and cowherd boys.”
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Understanding that both Srutadeva and Bahulasva wanted him to come to their houses, he expanded himself and the sages into two forms and entered both houses, without the other person seeing it. The king thought "Merciful Krsna has accepted my invitation and is coming to my house, and Srutadeva is going home alone." And Srutadeva thought, "Krsna is accepting my invitation and the king is going home alone."
So they also had developed two forms, one joyful with Krsna and one despondent without Krsna. The neighbors of the king who was with Krsna, on going to Srutadeva’s house, saw him there alone and despondent without Krsna; and the assistants of Srutadeva who were with Krsna, going to the king’s house saw him there alone and despondent without Krsna.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
The Lord entered both houses completely, with all the sages (ā—viśat). The Lord expanded into two forms. The sages also became two forms but not independent of the Lord’s will.