Text 11] The Meeting of Nanda Mahārāja and Vasudeva
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flower garlands;  nanda-ālayam —to the house of Mahārāja Nanda;  savalayāḥ —with bangles on their hands;  vrajatiḥ —while going (in that costume);  virejuḥ —they looked very, very beautiful;  vyālola —moving;  kuṇḍala —with earrings;  payodhara —with breasts;  hāra —with flower garlands;  śobhāḥ —who appeared so beautiful.
TRANSLATION
In the ears of the  gopīs  were brilliantly polished jeweled earrings, and from their necks hung metal lockets. Their hands were decorated with bangles, their dresses were of varied colors, and from their hair, flowers fell onto the street like showers. Thus while going to the house of Mahārāja Nanda, the  gopīs , their earrings, breasts and garlands moving, were brilliantly beautiful.
PURPORT
The description of the  gopīs , who were going to the house of Mahārāja Nanda to welcome Kṛṣṇa, is especially significant. The  gopīs  were not ordinary women, but expansions of Kṛṣṇa's pleasure potency, as described in the  Brahma-saṁhitā :
ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi  (5.37)
cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa- lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi  (5.29)
Kṛṣṇa is always worshiped by the  gopīs  wherever He goes. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is so vividly described in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . Śrī Caitanya Mahā-prabhu has also described Kṛṣṇa in this way:  ramyā kācid upāsanā