Text 32] Prthu Maharaja Milks the Earth Planet 727

athasmin bhagavan vainyah
prajanam ourtti-dah pita

nivasan kalpayan cakre
tatra tatra yatharhatah

atha—thus; asmin—on this earth planet; bhagavan—the Personality of
Godhead; vainyah—son of Vena; prajanam—of the citizens; vrtti-dah—who
supplies employment; pita—a father; nivasan—residences; kalpayan—suit-
able; cakre— make; tatra tatra—here and there; yatha— as;arhatah— desirable,
suitable.
TRANSLATION

To all the citizens of the state, King Prthu was as good as a father. Thus
he was visibly engaged in giving them proper subsistence and proper em-
ployment for subsistence. After leveling the surface of the globe, he ear-
marked different places for residential quarters, inasmuch as they were
desirable.

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graman purah pattanani
durgani vividhani ca

ghosdn vrajan sa-sibiran
adkaran kheta-kharvatan

graman—villages; purah—cities; pattanani—settlements; durgani—forts;
vividhani—of different varieties; ca—also; ghosan—habitations for the milk-
men; vrajan— pens for cattle; sa-sibiran—with camps; akaran—mines; kheta—
agricultural towns; kharvatan—mountain villages.

TRANSLATION

In this way the King founded many types of villages, settlements and
towns and built forts, residences for cowherdsmen, stables for the animals,
and places for the royal camps, mining places, agricultural towns and moun-
tain villages.

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