Verse 1.5.35

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.5.35:

चिरेण द्वारकां गन्तुम् उद्यतो यदु-जीवनः ।
काकु-स्तुतिभिर् आवृत्य स्व-गृहे रक्षतेऽनया ॥ ३५ ॥

cireṇa dvārakāṃ gantum udyato yadu-jīvanaḥ |
kāku-stutibhir āvṛtya sva-gṛhe rakṣate'nayā || 35 ||

Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the very life of the Yādavas, after residing in your palace for a long time prepared to go to Dvārakā, then Śrī Kuntī-devī with humble, pleading words stopped Him and kept Him in the palace.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Nārada is saying something else also. After lingering for some time because of the Mahābhārata War with the Pāṇḍavas such as Mahāraja Yudiṣṭhira, Śrī Kṛṣṇa became ready to depart to Dvārakā. At that time Śrī Kuntī-devī with humble words said, namasye puruṣaṃ tvādyam, īśvaraṃ prakṛteḥ param: “O Kṛṣṇa, my obeisances unto You! You are the Supreme Lord, the original personality invisible to material nature.” With these words of praise in the First Canto (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.8.18) she stopped Śrī Kṛṣṇa from going and kept Him in her palace for a few more days.

In the original verse here, the verb rakṣate indicates the present tense. It reveals that she stopped Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is the very life of the Yādavas, again and again. The purport of the word yadu-jīvana is that due to the separation for many days from Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is like their very jīvana-svarūpa, the Yādavas had almost become lifeless. Therefore, to grant them darśana Śrī Kṛṣṇa became ready to depart for Dvārakā repeatedly, and Śrī Kuntī-devī kept stopping Him by keeping Him in the palace.