34 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 13
PURPORT
After Brahma stole the original cowherd boys and calves, Krsna ex-
panded Himself to become the boys and calves again. Therefore, because
the boys were actually Krsna’s expansions, the cowherd men were es-
pecially attracted to them. At first the cowherd men, who were on top of
the hill, were angry, but because of Krsna the boys were extremely at-
tractive, and therefore the cowherd men immediately came down from
the hill with special affection.
TEXT 34
. TA: TATA TATA TAT: |
PRGA: BI
tatah pravayaso gopds
tokdslesa-sunirvrtah
krechrac chanair apagatas
tad-anusmrty-udasravah
tatah—thereafter; pravayasah—elderly; gopah—cowherd men; toka-
aslesa-sunirurtah—became overjoyed by embracing their sons; kre-
chrat—with difficulty; sanaih—gradually; apagatah—ceased from that
embracing and returned to the forest; tat-anusmrti-uda-sravah—as they
remembered their sons, tears began to roll down from their eyes.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter the elderly cowherd men, having obtained great feel-
ing 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.
