Verse 1.6.85-86

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.6.85-86:

कृतापराधवन् नन्दो वक्तुं किञ्चिद् दिन-त्रयम् ।
अशक्तोऽत्यन्त-शोकार्तो व्रज-प्राणान् अवन् गतान् ॥ ८५ ॥
भवतस् तत्र यानोक्तिं ग्राहयन् शपथोत्करैः ।
दर्शयन् युक्ति-चातुर्यम् अमून् एवम् असान्त्वयत् ॥ ८६ ॥

kṛtāparādhavan nando vaktuṃ kiñcid dina-trayam |
aśakto'tyanta-śokārto vraja-prāṇān avan gatān || 85 ||
bhavatas tatra yānoktiṃ grāhayan śapathotkaraiḥ |
darśayan yukti-cāturyam amūn evam asāntvayat || 86 ||

Śrī Nanda Mahārāja considered himself an offender and could not speak anything for three days. Then, seeing the lives of the Vrajavāsīs diminishing from overwhelming distress, he took many types of vows, and gave them such confidence that “Kṛṣṇa would come back to Vraja” and by various types of clever tricks, He somehow pacified them.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

To give consolation to Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who was engrossed in thought, Śrī Uddhava narrates the two ślokas beginning with kṛta. The king of gopas, Śrī Nanda, returned to Vraja and, considering himself guilty, could not speak anything for three days.

Nevertheless, to protect the vital life-airs that had risen in the throats of the vraja-vāsīs who were racing towards death and absorbed in great distress, he mentioned these words that revealed the hope that You would come back to Vraja (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.45.23), jñātīn vo draṣtum eṣyāmo vidhāya suhṛdāṃ sukham: “We shall arrange for the happiness of our beloved relatives, then shall very soon come back to Vraja to meet you kinsmen who are distressed due to our affection.”

Making vows such as this, Śrī Nanda Mahārāja gave them hope that Śrī Kṛṣṇa will arrive in Vraja. Although, in this way all the beloved ones were distressed due to separation, by the tricky and clever words mentioned next, Śrī Nanda pacified them.