424
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 9]
TRANSLATION
Thus, as Dhruva Mahārāja passed on the road, from every place in the neighborhood all the gentle household ladies assembled to see him, and out of maternal affection they offered their blessings, showering him with white mustard seed, barley, curd, water, newly grown grass, fruits and flowers. In this way Dhruva Mahārāja, while hearing the pleasing songs sung by the ladies, entered the palace of his father.
TEXT 60
महामणिव्रातमये स तस्मिन् भवनोत्तमे । लालितो नितरां पित्रा न्यवसद्दिवि देववत् ॥६०॥
mahāmaṇi-vrāta-maye sa tasmin bhavanottame lālito nitarām pitrā nyavasad divi devavat
mahāmaṇi —greatly valuable jewels;  vrāta —groups of;  maye —bedecked with;  saḥ —he (Dhruva Mahārāja);  tasmin —in that;  bhavana-uttame —brilliant house;  lālitaḥ —being raised;  nitarām —always;  pitrā —by the father;  nyavasat —lived there;  divi —in the higher planetary systems;  deva-vat —like the demigods.
TRANSLATION
Dhruva Mahārāja thereafter lived in his father's palace, which had walls bedecked with highly valuable jewels. His affectionate father took particular care of him, and he dwelled in that house just as the demigods live in their palaces in the higher planetary systems.
TEXT 61
पयःफेननिमाः शय्या दान्ता रुक्मपरिच्छदाः। आसनानि महार्हाणि यत्र रौक्मा उपस्कराः ॥६१॥
payaḥ-phena-nibhāḥ śayyā dāntā rukma-paricchadāḥ āsanāni mahārhāṇi yatra raukmā upaskarāḥ