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Pastimes of the Lord in His Youth
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TEXT 252
প্রভুরে শাস্ত্র করি’ আনিল মিজ ঘরে । পড়ুয়া পলায়া গেল পড়ুয়া-সভারে ॥ ২৫২ ॥
prabhure śānta kari’ ānila nija ghare paḍuyā palāyā gela paḍuyā-sabhāre
SYNONYMS
prabhure —the Lord;  śānta kari’ —pacifying;  ānila —brought;  nija —His own;  ghare —to the house;  paḍuyā —the student;  palāyā —running away;  gela —went;  paḍuyā —of students;  sabhāre —to the assembly.
TRANSLATION
The devotees pacified the Lord and brought Him home, and the student ran away to an assembly of other students.
TEXT 253
পড়ুয়া সহজ যাহাঁ পড়ে একঠাঞি । প্রভুর বৃত্তান্ত দ্বিজ কহে তাহাঁ যাই ॥ ২৫৩ ॥
paḍuyā sahasra yāhāṅ paḍe eka-ṭhāñi prabhura vṛttānta dvija kahe tāhāṅ yāi
SYNONYMS
paḍuyā —students;  sahasra —a thousand;  yāhāṅ —where;  paḍe —they study;  eka-ṭhāñi —in one place;  prabhura —of the Lord:  vṛttānta —incident;  dvija —a  brāhmaṇa ;  kahe —says;  tāhāṅ —there;  yāi —he goes.
TRANSLATION
The  brāhmaṇa  student ran to a place where a thousand students were studying together. There he described the incident to them.
PURPORT
In this verse we find the word  dvija , indicating that the student was a  brāhmaṇa . Actually, in those days, only members of the  brāhmaṇa  class became students of Vedic literature. Schooling is meant especially for  brāhmaṇas ; previously there was no question of schooling for  kṣatriyas ,  vaiśyas  or  śūdras .  Kṣatriyas  used to learn the technology of warfare, and  vaiśyas  learned business from their fathers or other businessmen; they were not meant to study the  Vedas . At the present, however,