Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 - Chapter 13

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 16 Sanskrit: ततो वत्सानद‍ृष्ट्वैत्य पुलिनेऽपि च वत्सपान् ।उभावपि वने कृष्णो विचिकाय समन्तत: ॥ १६ ॥ ITRANS: tato vatsān adṛṣṭvaityapuline ’pi ca vatsapānubhāv api vane kṛṣṇovicikāya samantataḥ Translation: Thereafter, when Kṛṣṇa was unable to find the calves, He returned to the bank of the river, but there He was also unable to see the cowherd boys. Thus He began to search for both the calves and the boys, as if He could not understand what had happened....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 17 Sanskrit: क्‍वाप्यद‍ृष्ट्वान्तर्विपिने वत्सान्पालांश्च विश्ववित् ।सर्वं विधिकृतं कृष्ण: सहसावजगाम ह ॥ १७ ॥ ITRANS: kvāpy adṛṣṭvāntar-vipinevatsān pālāṁś ca viśva-vitsarvaṁ vidhi-kṛtaṁ kṛṣṇaḥsahasāvajagāma ha Translation: When Kṛṣṇa was unable to find the calves and their caretakers, the cowherd boys, anywhere in the forest, He could suddenly understand that this was the work of Lord Brahmā. Purport: Although Kṛṣṇa is viśva-vit, the knower of everything happening in the entire cosmic manifestation, as an innocent child He showed ignorance of Brahmā’s actions, although He could immediately understand that these were the doings of Brahmā....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 18 Sanskrit: तत: कृष्णो मुदं कर्तुं तन्मातृणां च कस्य च ।उभयायितमात्मानं चक्रे विश्वकृदीश्वर: ॥ १८ ॥ ITRANS: tataḥ kṛṣṇo mudaṁ kartuṁtan-mātṝṇāṁ ca kasya caubhayāyitam ātmānaṁcakre viśva-kṛd īśvaraḥ Translation: Thereafter, just to create pleasure both for Brahmā and for the mothers of the calves and cowherd boys, Kṛṣṇa, the creator of the entire cosmic manifestation, expanded Himself as calves and boys. Purport: Although Brahmā was already entangled in bewilderment, he wanted to show his power to the cowherd boys; but after he took away the boys and their calves and returned to his abode, Kṛṣṇa created further astonishment for Brahmā, and for the mothers of the boys, by establishing the lunch pastimes in the forest again and replacing all the calves and boys, just as they had appeared before....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 19 Sanskrit: यावद् वत्सपवत्सकाल्पकवपुर्यावत् कराङ्‌‌घ्र्यादिकंयावद् यष्टिविषाणवेणुदलशिग् यावद् विभूषाम्बरम् ।यावच्छीलगुणाभिधाकृतिवयो यावद् विहारादिकंसर्वं विष्णुमयं गिरोऽङ्गवदज: सर्वस्वरूपो बभौ ॥ १९ ॥ ITRANS: yāvad vatsapa-vatsakālpaka-vapur yāvat karāṅghry-ādikaṁyāvad yaṣṭi-viṣāṇa-veṇu-dala-śig yāvad vibhūṣāmbaramyāvac chīla-guṇābhidhākṛti-vayo yāvad vihārādikaṁsarvaṁ viṣṇumayaṁ giro ’ṅga-vad ajaḥ sarva-svarūpo babhau Translation: By His Vāsudeva feature, Kṛṣṇa simultaneously expanded Himself into the exact number of missing cowherd boys and calves, with their exact bodily features, their particular types of hands, legs and other limbs, their sticks, bugles and flutes, their lunch bags, their particular types of dress and ornaments placed in various ways, their names, ages and forms, and their special activities and characteristics....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: स्वयमात्मात्मगोवत्सान् प्रतिवार्यात्मवत्सपै: ।क्रीडन्नात्मविहारैश्च सर्वात्मा प्राविशद् व्रजम् ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: svayam ātmātma-govatsānprativāryātma-vatsapaiḥkrīḍann ātma-vihāraiś casarvātmā prāviśad vrajam Translation: Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time appear as their leader, Kṛṣṇa entered Vrajabhūmi, the land of His father, Nanda Mahārāja, just as He usually did while enjoying their company....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 21 Sanskrit: तत्तद्वत्सान्पृथङ्‌नीत्वा तत्तद्गोष्ठे निवेश्य स: ।तत्तदात्माभवद् राजंस्तत्तत्सद्म प्रविष्टवान् ॥ २१ ॥ ITRANS: tat-tad-vatsān pṛthaṅ nītvātat-tad-goṣṭhe niveśya saḥtat-tad-ātmābhavad rājaṁstat-tat-sadma praviṣṭavān Translation: O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Kṛṣṇa, who had divided Himself as different calves and also as different cowherd boys, entered different cow sheds as the calves and then different homes as different boys. Purport: Kṛṣṇa had many, many friends, of whom Śrīdāmā, Sudāmā and Subala were prominent....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 22 Sanskrit: तन्मातरो वेणुरवत्वरोत्थिताउत्थाप्य दोर्भि: परिरभ्य निर्भरम् ।स्‍नेहस्‍नुतस्तन्यपय:सुधासवंमत्वा परं ब्रह्म सुतानपाययन् ॥ २२ ॥ ITRANS: tan-mātaro veṇu-rava-tvarotthitāutthāpya dorbhiḥ parirabhya nirbharamsneha-snuta-stanya-payaḥ-sudhāsavaṁmatvā paraṁ brahma sutān apāyayan Translation: The mothers of the boys, upon hearing the sounds of the flutes and bugles being played by their sons, immediately rose from their household tasks, lifted their boys onto their laps, embraced them with both arms and began to feed them with their breast milk, which flowed forth because of extreme love specifically for Kṛṣṇa....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23 Sanskrit: ततो नृपोन्मर्दनमज्जलेपना-लङ्काररक्षातिलकाशनादिभि: ।संलालित: स्वाचरितै: प्रहर्षयन्सायं गतो यामयमेन माधव: ॥ २३ ॥ ITRANS: tato nṛponmardana-majja-lepanā-laṅkāra-rakṣā-tilakāśanādibhiḥsaṁlālitaḥ svācaritaiḥ praharṣayansāyaṁ gato yāma-yamena mādhavaḥ Translation: Thereafter, O Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as required according to the scheduled round of His pastimes, Kṛṣṇa returned in the evening, entered the house of each of the cowherd boys, and engaged exactly like the former boys, thus enlivening their mothers with transcendental pleasure....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 24 Sanskrit: गावस्ततो गोष्ठमुपेत्य सत्वरंहुङ्कारघोषै: परिहूतसङ्गतान् ।स्वकान् स्वकान् वत्सतरानपाययन्मुहुर्लिहन्त्य: स्रवदौधसं पय: ॥ २४ ॥ ITRANS: gāvas tato goṣṭham upetya satvaraṁhuṅkāra-ghoṣaiḥ parihūta-saṅgatānsvakān svakān vatsatarān apāyayanmuhur lihantyaḥ sravad audhasaṁ payaḥ Translation: Thereafter, all the cows entered their different sheds and began mooing loudly, calling for their respective calves. When the calves arrived, the mothers began licking the calves’ bodies again and again and profusely feeding them with the milk flowing from their milk bags....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 25 Sanskrit: गोगोपीनां मातृतास्मिन्नासीत्स्‍नेहर्धिकां विना ।पुरोवदास्वपि हरेस्तोकता मायया विना ॥ २५ ॥ ITRANS: go-gopīnāṁ mātṛtāsminnāsīt snehardhikāṁ vināpurovad āsv api harestokatā māyayā vinā Translation: Previously, from the very beginning, the gopīs had motherly affection for Kṛṣṇa. Indeed, their affection for Kṛṣṇa exceeded even their affection for their own sons. In displaying their affection, they had thus distinguished between Kṛṣṇa and their sons, but now that distinction disappeared....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 26 Sanskrit: व्रजौकसां स्वतोकेषु स्‍नेहवल्‍ल्याब्दमन्वहम् ।शनैर्नि:सीम ववृधे यथा कृष्णे त्वपूर्ववत् ॥ २६ ॥ ITRANS: vrajaukasāṁ sva-tokeṣusneha-vally ābdam anvahamśanair niḥsīma vavṛdheyathā kṛṣṇe tv apūrvavat Translation: Although the inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi, the cowherd men and cowherd women, previously had more affection for Kṛṣṇa than for their own children, now, for one year, their affection for their own sons continuously increased, for Kṛṣṇa had now become their sons....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 27 Sanskrit: इत्थमात्मात्मनात्मानं वत्सपालमिषेण स: ।पालयन् वत्सपो वर्षं चिक्रीडे वनगोष्ठयो: ॥ २७ ॥ ITRANS: ittham ātmātmanātmānaṁvatsa-pāla-miṣeṇa saḥpālayan vatsapo varṣaṁcikrīḍe vana-goṣṭhayoḥ Translation: In this way, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, having Himself become the cowherd boys and groups of calves, maintained Himself by Himself. Thus He continued His pastimes, both in Vṛndāvana and in the forest, for one year. Purport: Everything was Kṛṣṇa. The calves, the cowherd boys and their maintainer Himself were all Kṛṣṇa....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 28 Sanskrit: एकदा चारयन् वत्सान्सरामो वनमाविशत् ।पञ्चषासु त्रियामासु हायनापूरणीष्वज: ॥ २८ ॥ ITRANS: ekadā cārayan vatsānsa-rāmo vanam āviśatpañca-ṣāsu tri-yāmāsuhāyanāpūraṇīṣv ajaḥ Translation: One day, five or six nights before the completion of the year, Kṛṣṇa, tending the calves, entered the forest along with Balarāma. Purport: Up to this time, even Balarāma was captivated by the bewilderment that covered Brahmā. Even Balarāma did not know that all the calves and cowherd boys were expansions of Kṛṣṇa or that He Himself was also an expansion of Kṛṣṇa....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 29 Sanskrit: ततो विदूराच्चरतो गावो वत्सानुपव्रजम् ।गोवर्धनाद्रिशिरसि चरन्त्यो दद‍ृशुस्तृणम् ॥ २९ ॥ ITRANS: tato vidūrāc caratogāvo vatsān upavrajamgovardhanādri-śirasicarantyo dadṛśus tṛṇam Translation: Thereafter, while pasturing atop Govardhana Hill, the cows looked down to find some green grass and saw their calves pasturing near Vṛndāvana, not very far away. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 30 Sanskrit: द‍ृष्ट्वाथ तत्स्‍नेहवशोऽस्मृतात्मास गोव्रजोऽत्यात्मपदुर्गमार्ग: ।द्विपात्ककुद्ग्रीव उदास्यपुच्छो-ऽगाद्धुङ्कृतैरास्रुपया जवेन ॥ ३० ॥ ITRANS: dṛṣṭvātha tat-sneha-vaśo ’smṛtātmāsa go-vrajo ’tyātmapa-durga-mārgaḥdvi-pāt kakud-grīva udāsya-puccho’gād dhuṅkṛtair āsru-payā javena Translation: When the cows saw their own calves from the top of Govardhana Hill, they forgot themselves and their caretakers because of increased affection, and although the path was very rough, they ran toward their calves with great anxiety, each running as if with one pair of legs....