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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 12]
kṛṣṇa-vatsair asankhyātair yūthī-kṛtya sva-vatsakān cārayanto 'rbha-līlābhir vijahrus tatra tatra ha
kṛṣṇa —of Lord Kṛṣṇa;  vatsaiḥ —along with the calves;  asankhyātaiḥ —unlimited;  yūthī-kṛtya —assembled them;  sva-vatsakān —personal calves;  cārayantaḥ —executing;  arbha-līlābhiḥ —by boyhood pastimes;  vijahruḥ —enjoyed;  tatra tatra —here and there;  ha —indeed.
TRANSLATION
Along with the cowherd boys and their own groups of calves, Kṛṣṇa came out with an unlimited number of calves assembled. Then all the boys began to sport in the forest in a greatly playful spirit.
PURPORT
In this verse the words  kṛṣṇa-vatsair asankhyātaiḥ  are significant. The word  asankhyāta  means “unlimited.” Kṛṣṇa’s calves were unlimited. We may speak of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, billions, trillions, tens of trillions, and so on, but when we go further to speak of numbers impossible for us to count, we are speaking of unlimited numbers. Such unlimited numbers are indicated here by the word  asankhyātaiḥ . Kṛṣṇa is unlimited, His potency is unlimited, His cows and calves are unlimited, and His space is unlimited. Therefore He is described in  Bhagavad-gītā  as Parabrahman. The word  brahman  means “unlimited,” and Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Unlimited, Parabrahman. Therefore, we should not consider the statements of this verse to be mythological. They are factual, but inconceivable. Kṛṣṇa can accommodate an unlimited number of calves and an unlimited measurement of space. This is neither mythological nor false, but if we study Kṛṣṇa’s potency with our limited knowledge, that potency will never be possible to understand.  Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ  ( Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.109 ). Our senses cannot perceive how He could keep an unlimited number of calves and cows and have unlimited space in which to do so. But this is answered in the  Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta :