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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 2]
parīto vatsapair vatsāṁś cārayan vyaharad vibhuḥ yamunopavane kūjad- dvija-saṅkulitāṅghripe
parītaḥ—surrounded by; vatsapaiḥ—cowherd boys; vatsān—calves; cārayan—herding, tending; vyaharat—enjoyed by traveling; vibhuḥ—the Almighty; yamunā—the Yamunā River; upavane—gardens on the shore; kūjat—vibrated by the voice; dvija—the twice-born birds; saṅkulita—densely situated; aṅghripe—trees.
TRANSLATION
In His childhood, the Almighty Lord was surrounded by cowherd boys and calves, and thus He traveled on the shore of the Yamunā River, through gardens densely covered with trees and filled with vibrations of chirping birds.
PURPORT
Nanda Mahārāja was a landholder for King Kaṁsa, but because by caste he was a  vaiśya , a member of the mercantile and agricultural community, he maintained thousands of cows. It is the duty of the  vaiśyas  to give protection to the cows, just as the  kṣatriyas  are to give protection to the human beings. Because the Lord was a child, He was put in charge of the calves with His other cowherd boy friends. These cowherd boys were great  ṛṣis  and  yogīs  in their previous births, and after many such pious births, they gained the association of the Lord and could play with Him on equal terms. Such cowherd boys never cared to know who  Kṛṣṇa  was, but they played with Him as a most intimate and lovable friend. They were so fond of the Lord that at night they would only think of the next morning when they would be able to meet the Lord and go together to the forests for cowherding.
The forests on the shore of the Yamunā are all beautiful gardens full of trees of mango, jackfruit, apples, guava, oranges, grapes, berries, palmfruit and so many other plants and fragrant flowers. And because the forest was on the bank of the Yamunā, naturally there were ducks, cranes and peacocks on the branches of the trees. All these trees and birds and beasts were pious living entities born in the transcendental abode of  Vṛndāvana  just to give pleasure to the Lord and His eternal associates, the cowherd boys.