Verse 1.7.54

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.7.54:

सर्वतो वीक्ष्य तत्-तीरे प्रकटां स्वां महा-पुरीम् ।
आलक्ष्य किम् इदं क्वाहं कोऽहम् इत्य् आह विस्मितः ॥ ५४ ॥

sarvato vīkṣya tat-tīre prakaṭāṃ svāṃ mahā-purīm |
ālakṣya kim idaṃ kvāhaṃ ko'ham ity āha vismitaḥ || 54 ||

Then Śrī Kṛṣṇa began to look in all directions and after seeing His embellished city of Dvārakā near the great ocean shore, He became extremely amazed and began to exclaim, “Aho, what is this? Where am I? Who am I?”

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Then Śrī Kṛṣṇa, looking in all four directions, saw the effulgent city of Dvārakā situated on the shore of the ocean, devoid of surrounding, luring forests and began to say astonishingly, “Aho, what’s this? How has the ocean come here to Vraja-bhūmi? Then again, is this not Vraja-bhūmi? Where am I? Is this really Dvārakāpurī? All right, how then did I become the son of Nanda? Because the son of Nanda cannot stay anywhere else other than Vraja-bhūmi, am I not the son of Nanda? Who am I? Rather, if I am in Dvārakā, how did this Vraja attire come about and dress Me as the topmost King of all kings? So who am I?”