Text 253] Pastimes of the Lord in His Youth 387

TEXT 252
ASA Ae sy ortferr fas aca |
AG Di AMAT Ce AGT BM-ASITA t 22 Wi
prabhure santa kari’ anila nija ghare
paduyé palayd gela paduyd-sabhdre
SYNONYMS

prabhure—the Lord; $dnta kari’—pacifying; @nifa—brought; nija—His own; ghare—
to the house; paguyda—the student; pa/dy@—running away; ge/a—went; paduyd—of
students; sabhdre—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

AGH ASR WE HCG asotha |
otya gates far Fre SIE WS cot

paduyd sahasra yahan pade eka-thani
prabhura vrtianta dvija kahe tahan ydi

SYNONYMS

paduyd—students; sahasra—a thousand; yahén—where; page—they study; eka-
thani—in one place; prabhura--of the Lord: yvrttdnta—incident; dvija—a brahmana;
Rkahe—says; tahGf—there; ydi—he goes.

TRANSLATION

The brahmana student ran to a place where a thousand students were studying
together. There he described the incident to them.

PURPORT

{n this verse we find the word dvéja, indicating that the student was a brdhmana.
Actually, in those days, only members of the érdhmana class became students of
Vedic literature. Schooling is meant especially for bséhmanas; previously there was
no question of schooling for ksatriyas, vaisyas or Suédras. Ksatriyas used to learn the
technology of warfare, and vaisyas learned business from their fathers or other
businessmen; they were not meant to study the Vedas. At the present, however,
