724 Stimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 18

vata-vatsah—making the banyan tree a calf; vanah-patayah—the trees;
prthak— different; rasa-mayam—in the form of juices; payah—milk; girayah—
the hills and mountains; himavat-vatsah—making the Himalayas the calf;
nana@—various; dhatiin— minerals; sva—own; sa€nusu—on their peaks.

TRANSLATION

The trees made a calf out of the banyan tree, and thus they derived milk
in the form of many delicious juices. The mountains transformed the
Himalayas into a calf, and they milked a variety of minerals into a pot made
of the peaks of hills.

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sarve sva-mukhya-vatsena
sve sve patre prthak payah
sarva-kdma-dugham prthvirhn
duduhuh prthu-bhavitam

sarve—all; sva-mukhya—by their own chiefs; vatsena—as the calf; sve
sve—in their own; patre— pots; prthak—different; payah— milk; sarva-kama—
all desirables; dugham—supplying as milk; prthvim—the earthly planet;
duduhuh— milked out; prthu-bhavitam—controlled by King Prthu.

TRANSLATION

The planet earth supplied everyone his respective food. During the time
of King Prthu, the earth was fully under the control of the King. Thus all
the inhabitants of the earth could get their food supply by creating various
types of calves and putting their particular types of milk in various pots.

PURPORT

This is evidence that the Lord supplies food to everyone. As confirmed
in the Vedas: eko bahtinam yo vidadhati kaman. Although the Lord is one,
He is supplying all necessities to everyone through the medium of the planet
earth. There are different varieties of living entities on different planets,
and they all derive their eatables from their planets in different forms. On
the basis of these descriptions, how can one assume that there is no living
entity on the moon? Every moon is earthly, being composed of the five
