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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 13]
PURPORT
After Brahmā stole the original cowherd boys and calves, Kṛṣṇa expanded Himself to become the boys and calves again. Therefore, because the boys were actually Kṛṣṇa's expansions, the cowherd men were especially attracted to them. At first the cowherd men, who were on top of the hill, were angry, but because of Kṛṣṇa the boys were extremely attractive, and therefore the cowherd men immediately came down from the hill with special affection.
TEXT 34
ततः प्रवयसो गोपास्तोकाश्लेषसुनिर्धृताः । 
  कृच्छ्राच्छन्नैरपगतास्तदनुस्मृत्युदश्रवः ॥३४॥
tataḥ pravayaso gopās 
  tokāśleṣa-sunirvṛtāḥ 
  kṛcchrāc chanair apagatās 
  tad-anusmṛti-udaśravaḥ
tataḥ—thereafter; pravayasaḥ—elderly; gopāḥ—cowherd men; tokāśleṣa-sunirvṛtāḥ—became overjoyed by embracing their sons; kṛcchrāt—with difficulty; śanaiḥ—gradually; apagatāḥ—ceased from that embracing and returned to the forest; tat-anusmṛti-uda-śravaḥ—as they remembered their sons, tears began to roll down from their eyes.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter the elderly cowherd men, having obtained great feeling from embracing their sons, gradually and with great difficulty and reluctance ceased embracing them and returned to the forest. But as the men remembered their sons, tears began to roll down from their eyes.
PURPORT
In the beginning the cowherd men were angry that the cows were being attracted by the calves, but when the men came down from the hill, they themselves were attracted by their sons, and therefore the men embraced them. To embrace one's son and smell his head are symptoms of affection.