Text 44] Brahma Stealing the Boys and Calves 45

evam—in this way; etesu bhedesu—between these boys, who were ex-
isting separately; ciram—for a long time; dhydtvd—after thinking;
sah—he; dtma-bhih—Lord Brahma; satyah—real; ke—who; katare—
who; na—are not; iti—thus; jidtum—to understand; na—not; iste—
was able; katharicana—in any way at all.

TRANSLATION

Thus Lord Brahma, thinking and thinking for a long time, tried
to distinguish between those two sets of boys, who were each sepa-
rately existing. He tried to understand who was real and who was
not real, but he couldn’t understand at all.

PURPORT

Brahma was puzzled. “The original boys and calves are still sleeping
as I have kept them,” he thought, “but another set is here playing with
Krsna. How has this happened?” Brahma could not grasp what was hap-
pening. Which boys were real, and which were not real? Brahma was un-
able to come to any definite conclusion. He pondered the matter for a
long while. ‘““How can there be two sets of calves and boys at the same
time? Have the boys and calves here been created by Krsna, or has Krsna
created the ones lying asleep? Or are both merely creations of Krsna?”
Brahma thought about the subject in many different ways. “After I go to
the cave and see that the boys and calves are still there, does Krsna go
take them away and put them here so that I come here and see them, and
does Krsna then take them from here and put them there?” Brahma
could not figure out how there could be two sets of calves and cowherd
boys exactly alike. Although thinking and thinking, he could not under-
stand at all.

TEXT 44
ay armed fey fae Pater |
aq ATTY aaRT Ratha: Levi

evam sammohayan visnum
vimoham visva-mohanam
