22 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 13

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STATA IAT TAT ATAATTT: |
SAAT AAMT MAT AAT Rll

svayam atmatma-govatsan
prativarydtma-vatsapaih

kridann adtma-viharais ca
sarvatma pravisad vrajam

svayam atma— Krsna, who is personally the Supreme Soul, the Super-
soul; dtma-go-vatsén—now expanded into calves that were also He Him-
self; prativarya Gtma-vatsapaih—again He Himself was represented as
the cowherd boys controlling and commanding the calves; kridan —thus
Himself constituting everything in these transcendental pastimes; dtma-
vihadraih ca—enjoying Himself by Himself in different ways; sarva-at-
ma—the Supersoul, Krsna; prdavisat—entered; vrajam—Vrajabhimi,
the land of Maharaja Nanda and Yagoda.

TRANSLATION

Now expanding Himself so as to appear as all the calves and
cowherd boys, all of them as they were, and at the same time ap-
pear as their leader, Krsna entered Vrajabhimi, the land of His
father, Nanda Maharaja, just as He usually did while enjoying their
company.

PURPORT

Krsna usually stayed in the forest and pasturing ground, taking care
of the calves and cows with His associates the cowherd boys. Now that the
original group had been taken away by Brahma, Krsna Himself assumed
the forms of every member of the group, without anyone’s knowledge,
even the knowledge of Baladeva, and continued the usual program. He
was ordering His friends to do this and that, and He was controlling the
calves and going into the forest to search for them when they went
astray, allured by new grass, but these calves and boys were He Himself.
This was Krsna’s inconceivable potency. As explained by Srila Jiva
Gosvami, radha krsna-pranaya-vikrtir hlddini saktir asmat. Radha and
