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RY OF CULTURE
 
SL
 
To delight then the mothers of the
cowherds and god Brahma, the Master
who is the creator of the universe, trans-
formed Himself into both, the cowherds
and the calves.
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
महाप
 
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SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
स्वयमात्माऽऽत्मगोवत्सान् प्रतिवार्यात्मवत्सपैः ।
क्रीडान्नात्मविहारैश्च सर्वात्मा प्राविशद्रजम् ॥
 
Collecting the calves which were
Himself by the cowherds who were
Himself, playing games which were
Himself, the soul of everything Himself
entered the Vraja.
 
तत्तद्वत्सान् पृथङ् नीत्वा तत्तत्सद्म प्रविष्टवान् ॥
 
Having driven and penned separately
the calves of the several cowherds, the
Lord entered the abode of each (as the
cowherd).
 
इत्थमात्माऽऽत्मनाऽऽत्मानं वत्सपालमिषेण सः ॥
पालयन् वत्सपो वर्ष चिक्रीडे वनगोष्ठयोः ॥
 
Thus, in the guise of the cowherds and
the calves, that cowherd who is the Soul
(of all), Himself protecting Himself,
sported Himself in the forest and in the
Gokula for a year.