Verse 2.4.2

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.2:

श्रीमन्-मधु-पूरिं क्रीडा-भ्रमण-क्रमतो गतः ।
तत्र माथुर-विप्रेभ्योऽश्रौषं भागवतादिकम् ॥ २ ॥
श्रीमत्-मधु-पुरीम्–थे चित्य् ओf श्री मथुरा; क्रीडा-भ्रमण–प्लय्fउल् wअन्देरिन्ग्स्; क्रमतः–ग्रदुअल्ल्य्; गतः–अर्रिवेद्; तत्र–थेरे; माथुर–ओf मथुरा; विप्रेभ्यः–fरोम् थे ब्राह्मणस्; अश्रौषम्–इ हेअर्द्; भागवत–

śrīman-madhu-pūriṃ krīḍā-bhramaṇa-kramato gataḥ |
tatra māthura-viprebhyo'śrauṣaṃ bhāgavatādikam || 2 ||

śrīmat-madhu-purīm–the city of Śrī Mathurā; krīḍā-bhramaṇa–playful wanderings; kramataḥ–gradually; gataḥ–arrived; tatra–there; māthura–of Mathurā; viprebhyaḥ–from the brāhmaṇas; aśrauṣam–I heard; bhāgavata–Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam; ādikam–and other scriptures.

In the course of my playful wanderings, I arrived in Śrī Mathurāpurī, where I heard the recitation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and other devotional scriptures from the local brāhmaṇas.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

“By the mercy of Śrī Mathurā-nātha, the Lord of Mathurā, all my desires were fulfilled.” To explain this, Śrī Gopakumāra speaks this verse beginning with śrīman.

He says, “Once, as I blithely roamed about, I arrived in Śrī Madhupurī (Mathurā).” Here the term ‘roaming blithely’ indicates that Gopakumāra did not follow any particular sequence as he wandered through the land of Śrī Vraja. “By the mercy of the brāhmaṇas in the city of Śrī Mathurā, I heard narrations from the Bhāgavatam and other sacred texts. For the most part, I heard from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the best of all scriptures, but I also heard a little from other devotional books that expound loving service to the Lord (bhagavad-bhakti) in accordance with Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.”