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Nand Bhavan / Nand Residence / नन्दभवन
To the south, adjacent to Nandisvar Hill, are a few ruins of the staircase of Nand Bhavan. Nand's residence here was extensive, with separate bedrooms for everyone including Nand Baba, Mother Yashoda, Mother Rohini, Krishna and Baldev. It had a kitchen, store-room and dining hall, as well as resting-rooms and other rooms for Radhika and Krishna. Here, Krishna and Baldev performed many of Their childhood, boyhood and youth pastimes. Daily, at forenoon, Radhika used to come here from Javat with Her sakhis on the zealous and loving requests of Mother Yashoda, and with great delight, She would prepare many tasty foodstuffs for Krishna together with Mother Rohini. Krishna used to eat with His sakhas in the adjacent large dining-hall and then rest in the bedroom situated one hundred steps from the dining-hall.
The compound of Nand Bhavan is immense and holds many delightful pastime places. Shri Raghupati Upadhyay glorifies Nand Baba and this compound in very sweet words:
rutim apare smrtim itare bharatam anye bhajantu bhava-bhitah
aham iha nandam. vande yasyalinde param brahma
---Padyavali (126)
"Those who are afraid of the perplexities of worldly life worship the Srutis and Smrtis, and others may worship the Mahabharat. Let them do so. I myself will always worship Nand Baba, in whose courtyard the Supreme Absolute Truth is crawling here and there on His knees."