230 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 15
sasainydmatya-vahaya
havismatya tapo-dhanah

tasmai—unto him; sah—he (Jamadagni); naradevéya—unto King
Kartaviryarjuna; munih—the great sage; arhanam—paraphernalia for
worship; dharat—offered; sa-sainya—with his soldiers; amatya—his
ministers; vahaya—and the chariots, the elephants, the horses or the
men who carried the palanquins; havismatyd—because of possessing a
kaémadhenu, a cow that could supply everything; tapah-dhanah—the
great sage, whose only power was his austerity, or who was engaged in
austerity.

TRANSLATION

The sage Jamadagni, who was engaged in great austerities in the
forest, received the King very well, along with the King’s soldiers,
ministers and carriers. He supplied all the necessities to worship
these guests, for he possessed a kamadhenu cow that was able to
supply everything.

PURPORT

The Brahma-samhita informs us that the spiritual world, and es-
pecially the planet Goloka Vrndavana, where Krsna lives, is full of
surabhi cows (surabhir abhipdlayantam). The surabhi cow is also called
kamadhenu. Although Jamadagni possessed only one kamadhenu, he
was able to get from it everything desirable. Thus he was able to receive
the King, along with the King’s great number of followers, ministers,
soldiers, animals and palanquin carriers. When we speak of a king, we
understand that he is accompanied by many followers. Jamadagni was
able to receive all the King’s followers properly and feed them
sumptuously with food prepared in ghee. The King was astonished at
how opulent Jamadagni was because of possessing only one cow, and
therefore he became envious of the great sage. This was the beginning of
his offense. Parasurama, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, killed Kartaviryarjuna because Kartaviryarjuna was too proud.
One may possess unusual opulence in this material world, but if one be-
comes puffed up and acts whimsically he will be punished by the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the lesson to learn from this
