Vishnu Purana — Amsha 5 — Chapter 6
ViP 5 6.1
कदाचिच् छकटस्याधः शयानो मधुसूदनः चिक्षेप चरणाव् ऊर्ध्वं स्तन्यार्थी प्ररुरोद च ॥
kadācic chakaṭasyādhaḥ śayāno madhusūdanaḥ cikṣepa caraṇāv ūrdhvaṃ stanyārthī praruroda ca //
Once, lying beneath a cart, Madhusūdana threw his feet upward and, wanting the breast, cried out.
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ViP 5 6.2
तस्य पादप्रहारेण शकटं परिवर्तितम् विध्वस्तकुम्भभाण्डं तद् विपरीतं पपात च ॥
tasya pādaprahāreṇa śakaṭaṃ parivartitam vidhvastakumbhabhāṇḍaṃ tad viparītaṃ papāta ca //
By the blow of his foot the cart was overturned, and it fell upside down, its pots and vessels shattered.
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ViP 5 6.3
ततो हाहाकृतः सर्वो गोपगोपीजनो द्विज आजगामाथ ददृशे बालम् उत्तानशायिनम् ॥
tato hāhākṛtaḥ sarvo gopagopījano dvija ājagāmātha dadṛśe bālam uttānaśāyinam //
Then all the cowherd men and women, crying out in dismay, O twice-born, came there and saw the child lying on his back.
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ViP 5 6.4
गोपाः केनेति केनेदं शकटं परिवर्तितम् तत्रैव बालकाः प्रोचुर् बालेनानेन पातितम् ॥
gopāḥ keneti kenedaṃ śakaṭaṃ parivartitam tatraiva bālakāḥ procur bālenānena pātitam //
The cowherds (asked), "By whom? By whom was this cart overturned?" The children right there said, "It was knocked over by this child.
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ViP 5 6.5
रुदता दृष्टम् अस्माभिः पादविक्षेपताडितम् शकटं परिवृत्तं वै नैतद् अन्यस्य चेष्टितम् ॥
rudatā dṛṣṭam asmābhiḥ pādavikṣepatāḍitam śakaṭaṃ parivṛttaṃ vai naitad anyasya ceṣṭitam //
"We saw it while he was crying: struck by the flinging of his foot, the cart was overturned—this is no other's doing."
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ViP 5 6.6
ततः पुनर् अतीवासन् गोपा विस्मितचेतसः नन्दगोपो ऽपि जग्राह बालम् अत्यन्तविस्मितः ॥
tataḥ punar atīvāsan gopā vismitacetasaḥ nandagopo 'pi jagrāha bālam atyantavismitaḥ //
Then again the cowherds were exceedingly astonished in mind, and Nanda the cowherd too, utterly amazed, picked up the child.
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ViP 5 6.7
यशोदा शकटारूढभग्नभाण्डकपालिकाः शकटं चार्चयाम् आस दधिपुष्पफलाक्षतैः ॥
yaśodā śakaṭārūḍhabhagnabhāṇḍakapālikāḥ śakaṭaṃ cārcayām āsa dadhipuṣpaphalākṣataiḥ //
Yaśodā worshipped the broken potsherds of the vessels that had been set upon the cart, and the cart (itself), with curds, flowers, fruits and unbroken rice grains.
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ViP 5 6.8
गर्गश् च गोकुले तत्र वसुदेवप्रचोदितः प्रच्छन्न एव गोपानां संस्कारान् अकरोत् तयोः ॥
gargaś ca gokule tatra vasudevapracoditaḥ pracchanna eva gopānāṃ saṃskārān akarot tayoḥ //
And there in Gokula Garga, urged on by Vasudeva, performed the sacraments for the two, hidden from the cowherds.
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ViP 5 6.9
ज्येष्ठं च रामम् इत्य् आह कृष्णं चैव तथापरम् गर्गो मतिमतां श्रेष्ठो नाम कुर्वन् महामतिः ॥
jyeṣṭhaṃ ca rāmam ity āha kṛṣṇaṃ caiva tathāparam gargo matimatāṃ śreṣṭho nāma kurvan mahāmatiḥ //
And Garga, best of the wise, the greatly intelligent one, in giving names called the elder Rāma and the other likewise Kṛṣṇa.
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ViP 5 6.10
स्वल्पेनैव हि कालेन रिङ्गिणौ तौ तदा व्रजे घृष्टजानुकरौ विप्र बभूवतुर् उभाव् अपि ॥
svalpenaiva hi kālena riṅgiṇau tau tadā vraje ghṛṣṭajānukarau vipra babhūvatur ubhāv api //
In only a little time, O brahmin, both of them became crawlers there in the cow-settlement, with knees and hands worn by rubbing.
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ViP 5 6.11
करीषभस्मदिग्धाङ्गौ भ्रममाणाव् इतस् ततः न निवारयितुं सेहे यशोदा न च रोहिणी ॥
karīṣabhasmadigdhāṅgau bhramamāṇāv itas tataḥ na nivārayituṃ sehe yaśodā na ca rohiṇī //
Their limbs smeared with cow-dung ash, roaming here and there, neither Yaśodā nor Rohiṇī was able to restrain them.
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ViP 5 6.12
गोवाटमध्ये क्रीडन्तौ वत्सवाटगतौ पुनः तदहर्जातगोवत्सपुच्छाकर्षणतत्परौ ॥
govāṭamadhye krīḍantau vatsavāṭagatau punaḥ tadaharjātagovatsapucchākarṣaṇatatparau //
Playing in the midst of the cow-pen, then going into the calf-pen, they were intent on pulling the tails of the calves born that very day.
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ViP 5 6.13
यदा यशोदा तौ बालाव् एकस्थानचराव् उभौ शशाक नो वारयितुं क्रीडन्ताव् अतिचञ्चलौ ॥
yadā yaśodā tau bālāv ekasthānacarāv ubhau śaśāka no vārayituṃ krīḍantāv aticañcalau //
When Yaśodā could not restrain the two boys, both moving about in one place, playing and exceedingly restless—
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ViP 5 6.14
दाम्ना बद्ध्वा तदा मध्ये निबबन्ध उलूखले कृष्णम् अक्लिष्टकर्माणम् आह चेदम् अमर्षिता ॥
dāmnā baddhvā tadā madhye nibabandha ulūkhale kṛṣṇam akliṣṭakarmāṇam āha cedam amarṣitā //
—then, having tied him with a rope, she bound Kṛṣṇa, whose deeds are effortless, in the middle of a mortar, and, out of patience, said this:
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ViP 5 6.15
यदि शक्नोषि गच्छ त्वम् अतिचञ्चलचेष्टित इत्य् उक्त्वा च निजं कर्म सा चकार कुटुम्बिनी ॥
yadi śaknoṣi gaccha tvam aticañcalaceṣṭita ity uktvā ca nijaṃ karma sā cakāra kuṭumbinī //
"Go, if you can, you whose behaviour is so very restless!"—and having said this, that housewife went about her own work.
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ViP 5 6.16
व्यग्रायाम् अथ तस्यां स कर्षमाण उलूखलम् यमलार्जुनमध्येन जगाम कमलेक्षणः ॥
vyagrāyām atha tasyāṃ sa karṣamāṇa ulūkhalam yamalārjunamadhyena jagāma kamalekṣaṇaḥ //
Then, while she was busy, the lotus-eyed one went, dragging the mortar, between the twin arjuna trees.
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ViP 5 6.17
कर्षता वृक्षयोर् मध्ये तिर्यग्गतम् उलूखलम् भग्नाव् उत्तुङ्गशाखाग्रौ तेन तौ यमलार्जुनौ ॥
karṣatā vṛkṣayor madhye tiryaggatam ulūkhalam bhagnāv uttuṅgaśākhāgrau tena tau yamalārjunau //
As he dragged it, the mortar turned crosswise between the two trees, and by it those twin arjunas were broken at the tips of their lofty branches.
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ViP 5 6.18
ततः कटकटाशब्दसमाकर्णनकातरः आजगाम व्रजजनो ददृशे च महाद्रुमौ ॥
tataḥ kaṭakaṭāśabdasamākarṇanakātaraḥ ājagāma vrajajano dadṛśe ca mahādrumau //
Then the people of the cowherd station, alarmed at hearing the cracking sound, came, and saw the two great trees—
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ViP 5 6.19
भग्नस्कन्धौ निपतितौ भग्नशाखौ महीतले नवोद्गताल्पदन्तांशुसितहासं च बालकम् तयोर् मध्यगतं बद्धं दाम्ना गाढं तथोदरे ॥
bhagnaskandhau nipatitau bhagnaśākhau mahītale navodgatālpadantāṃśusitahāsaṃ ca bālakam tayor madhyagataṃ baddhaṃ dāmnā gāḍhaṃ tathodare //
—with trunks broken, fallen with their branches broken on the ground, and the little boy, his smile made white by the rays of his newly risen small teeth, standing between the two, bound tightly at the belly with a rope.
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ViP 5 6.20
ततश् च दामोदरतां स ययौ दामबन्धनात् ॥
tataś ca dāmodaratāṃ sa yayau dāmabandhanāt //
And from that binding with a rope he came to be called Dāmodara ("rope-belly").
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ViP 5 6.21
गोपवृद्धास् ततः सर्वे नन्दगोपपुरोगमाः मन्त्रयाम् आसुर् उद्विग्ना महोत्पातातिभीरवः ॥
gopavṛddhās tataḥ sarve nandagopapurogamāḥ mantrayām āsur udvignā mahotpātātibhīravaḥ //
Then all the cowherd elders, with Nanda the cowherd at their head, being agitated and greatly frightened at the great portents, took counsel:
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ViP 5 6.22
स्थानेनेह न नः कार्यं व्रजामो ऽन्यन् महावनम् उत्पाता बहवो ह्य् अत्र दृश्यन्ते नाशहेतवः ॥
sthāneneha na naḥ kāryaṃ vrajāmo 'nyan mahāvanam utpātā bahavo hy atra dṛśyante nāśahetavaḥ //
"We have no business with this place; let us go to another great forest. For here many portents are seen, causes of destruction:
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ViP 5 6.23
पूतनाया विनाशश् च शकटस्य विपर्ययः विना वातादिदोषेण द्रुमयोः पतनं तथा ॥
pūtanāyā vināśaś ca śakaṭasya viparyayaḥ vinā vātādidoṣeṇa drumayoḥ patanaṃ tathā //
the destruction of Pūtanā, the overturning of the cart, and the falling of the two trees without the fault of wind or the like.
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ViP 5 6.24
वृन्दावनम् इतः स्थानात् तस्माद् गच्छाम मा चिरम् यावद् भौममहोत्पातदोषो नाभिभवेद् व्रजम् ॥
vṛndāvanam itaḥ sthānāt tasmād gacchāma mā ciram yāvad bhaumamahotpātadoṣo nābhibhaved vrajam //
Therefore let us go from this place to Vṛndāvana without delay, before the harm of some great earthly portent overtakes the cowherd station."
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ViP 5 6.25
इति कृत्वा मतिं सर्वे गमने ते व्रजौकसः ऊचुः स्वं स्वं कुलं शीघ्रं गम्यतां मा विलम्ब्यताम् ॥
iti kṛtvā matiṃ sarve gamane te vrajaukasaḥ ūcuḥ svaṃ svaṃ kulaṃ śīghraṃ gamyatāṃ mā vilambyatām //
Having thus resolved upon departure, all those dwellers of the cattle-station said to their own families: "Let (everyone) go quickly, let there be no delay."
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ViP 5 6.26
ततः क्षणेन प्रययुः शकटैर् गोधनैस् तथा यूथशो वत्सपालांश् च कालयन्तो व्रजौकसः ॥
tataḥ kṣaṇena prayayuḥ śakaṭair godhanais tathā yūthaśo vatsapālāṃś ca kālayanto vrajaukasaḥ //
Then in a moment the dwellers of the cattle-station set out with their carts and their herds of cattle, driving along the calves too in troops.
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ViP 5 6.27
द्रव्यावयवनिर्धूतं क्षणमात्रेण तत् तदा काकभाससमाकीर्णं व्रजस्थानम् अभूद् द्विज ॥
dravyāvayavanirdhūtaṃ kṣaṇamātreṇa tat tadā kākabhāsasamākīrṇaṃ vrajasthānam abhūd dvija //
In that mere instant, O twice-born, that site of the cattle-station, swept clean of the remnants of its goods, became a place crowded with crows and vultures.
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ViP 5 6.28
वृन्दावनं भगवता कृष्णेनाक्लिष्टकर्मणा शुभेन मनसा ध्यातं गवां वृद्धिम् अभीप्सता ॥
vṛndāvanaṃ bhagavatā kṛṣṇenākliṣṭakarmaṇā śubhena manasā dhyātaṃ gavāṃ vṛddhim abhīpsatā //
Vṛndāvana was contemplated with a benign mind by the Lord Kṛṣṇa, whose deeds are effortless, desiring the increase of the cows.
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ViP 5 6.29
ततस् तत्रातिरूक्षे ऽपि घर्मकाले द्विजोत्तम प्रावृट्काल इवोद्भूतं नवशष्पं समन्ततः ॥
tatas tatrātirūkṣe 'pi gharmakāle dvijottama prāvṛṭkāla ivodbhūtaṃ navaśaṣpaṃ samantataḥ //
Thereupon, O best of the twice-born, although it was the hot season, extremely dry, new grass sprang up there on every side as if it were the rainy season.
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ViP 5 6.30
स समावासितः सर्वो व्रजो वृन्दावने ततः शकटीवाटपर्यन्तश् चन्द्रार्धाकारसंस्थितिः ॥
sa samāvāsitaḥ sarvo vrajo vṛndāvane tataḥ śakaṭīvāṭaparyantaś candrārdhākārasaṃsthitiḥ //
Then that whole cattle-station was settled in Vṛndāvana, bounded round by an enclosure of carts, arranged in the shape of a half-moon.
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ViP 5 6.31
वत्सपालौ च संवृत्तौ रामदामोदरौ ततः एकस्थानस्थितौ गोष्ठे चेरतुर् बाललीलया ॥
vatsapālau ca saṃvṛttau rāmadāmodarau tataḥ ekasthānasthitau goṣṭhe ceratur bālalīlayā //
And then Rāma and Dāmodara became calf-herders; staying in one place, they roamed about the cow-station in the play of children.
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ViP 5 6.32
बर्हिपत्रकृतापीडौ वन्यपुष्पावतंसकौ गोपवेणुकृतातोद्यौ पत्रवाद्यकृतस्वनौ ॥
barhipatrakṛtāpīḍau vanyapuṣpāvataṃsakau gopaveṇukṛtātodyau patravādyakṛtasvanau //
The two wore chaplets made of peacock feathers and ear-ornaments of wild flowers; they made music with cowherds' flutes and produced sounds with leaf-instruments.
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ViP 5 6.33
काकपक्षधरौ बालौ कुमाराव् इव पावकी हसन्तौ च रमन्तौ च चेरतुस् तन् महावनम् ॥
kākapakṣadharau bālau kumārāv iva pāvakī hasantau ca ramantau ca ceratus tan mahāvanam //
The two boys, wearing side-locks like crows' wings, roamed that great forest laughing and playing, like the two sons of Fire.
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ViP 5 6.34
क्वचिद् धसन्ताव् अन्योन्यं क्रीडमानौ तथापरैः गोपपुत्रैः समं वत्सांश् चारयन्तौ विचेरतुः ॥
kvacid dhasantāv anyonyaṃ krīḍamānau tathāparaiḥ gopaputraiḥ samaṃ vatsāṃś cārayantau viceratuḥ //
Sometimes laughing at each other, sometimes playing with other cowherd boys, the two wandered about, pasturing the calves.
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ViP 5 6.35
कालेन गच्छता तौ तु सप्तवर्षौ महाव्रजे सर्वस्य जगतः पालौ वत्सपालौ बभूवतुः ॥
kālena gacchatā tau tu saptavarṣau mahāvraje sarvasya jagataḥ pālau vatsapālau babhūvatuḥ //
As time went on, the two, being seven years old in the great cattle-station, became calf-herders—they who are the protectors of the whole world.
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ViP 5 6.36
प्रावृट्कालस् ततो ऽतीव मेघौघस्थगिताम्बरः बभूव वारिधाराभिर् ऐक्यं कुर्वन् दिशाम् इव ॥
prāvṛṭkālas tato 'tīva meghaughasthagitāmbaraḥ babhūva vāridhārābhir aikyaṃ kurvan diśām iva //
Then came the rainy season, with the sky utterly covered by masses of clouds, making the directions as if one with its streams of water.
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ViP 5 6.37
प्ररूढनवशष्पाढ्या शक्रगोपास्तृता मही तदा मारकतेवासीत् पद्मरागविभूषिता ॥
prarūḍhanavaśaṣpāḍhyā śakragopāstṛtā mahī tadā mārakatevāsīt padmarāgavibhūṣitā //
The earth, rich with newly sprouted young grass and strewn with cochineal insects, was then like an emerald surface adorned with rubies.
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ViP 5 6.38
ऊहुर् उन्मार्गवाहीनि निम्नगाम्भांसि सर्वतः मनांसि दुर्विनीतानां प्राप्य लक्ष्मीं नवाम् इव ॥
ūhur unmārgavāhīni nimnagāmbhāṃsi sarvataḥ manāṃsi durvinītānāṃ prāpya lakṣmīṃ navām iva //
On all sides the waters of the rivers, running out of their courses, flowed on, like the minds of the ill-bred on gaining new wealth.
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ViP 5 6.39
न रेजे ऽन्तरितश् चन्द्रो निर्मलो मलिनैर् घनैः सद्वाक्यवादो मूर्खाणां प्रगल्भाभिर् इवोक्तिभिः ॥
na reje 'ntaritaś candro nirmalo malinair ghanaiḥ sadvākyavādo mūrkhāṇāṃ pragalbhābhir ivoktibhiḥ //
The spotless moon, hidden by the grimy clouds, did not shine, as the utterance of good words by (or: of the wise) does not (shine) amid the presumptuous speeches of fools.
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ViP 5 6.40
निर्गुणेनापि चापेन शक्रस्य गगने पदम् अवाप्यताविवेकस्य नृपस्येव परिग्रहे ॥
nirguṇenāpi cāpena śakrasya gagane padam avāpyatāvivekasya nṛpasyeva parigrahe //
Though it has no string (or: no virtues), Śakra's bow gained a place in the sky, as (a worthless man does) in the entourage of an undiscerning king.
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ViP 5 6.41
मेघपृष्ठे बलाकानां रराज विमला ततिः दुर्वृत्ते वृत्तचेष्टेव कुलीनस्यातिशोभना ॥
meghapṛṣṭhe balākānāṃ rarāja vimalā tatiḥ durvṛtte vṛttaceṣṭeva kulīnasyātiśobhanā //
On the back of the cloud the pure line of cranes shone, like the practice of virtue in a man of good family—exceedingly splendid amid the wicked.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
ViP 5 6.42
न बबन्धाम्बरे स्थैर्यं विद्युद् अत्यन्तचञ्चला मैत्रीव प्रवरे पुंसि दुर्जनेन प्रयोजिता ॥
na babandhāmbare sthairyaṃ vidyud atyantacañcalā maitrīva pravare puṃsi durjanena prayojitā //
The lightning, exceedingly unsteady, held no constancy in the sky, like a friendship offered by a bad man toward an eminent person.
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ViP 5 6.43
मार्गा बभूवुर् अस्पष्टा नवशष्पचयावृताः अर्थान्तरम् अनुप्राप्ताः प्रजडानाम् इवोक्तयः ॥
mārgā babhūvur aspaṣṭā navaśaṣpacayāvṛtāḥ arthāntaram anuprāptāḥ prajaḍānām ivoktayaḥ //
The paths became indistinct, covered over with heaps of new grass, like the utterances of the very dull, which have taken on another meaning.
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ViP 5 6.44
उन्मत्तशिखिसारङ्गे तस्मिन् काले महावने कृष्णरामौ मुदा युक्तौ गोपालैश् चेरतुः सह ॥
unmattaśikhisāraṅge tasmin kāle mahāvane kṛṣṇarāmau mudā yuktau gopālaiś ceratuḥ saha //
In that season, when the peacocks and antelopes were frenzied, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, filled with delight, roamed in the great forest together with the cowherds.
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ViP 5 6.45
क्वचिद् गोभिः समं रम्यं गेयतानरताव् उभौ चेरतुः क्वचिद् अत्यर्थं शीतवृक्षतलाश्रयौ ॥
kvacid gobhiḥ samaṃ ramyaṃ geyatānaratāv ubhau ceratuḥ kvacid atyarthaṃ śītavṛkṣatalāśrayau //
Sometimes the two of them roamed pleasantly along with the cows, both intent on song and melody; sometimes they took shelter, with great delight, at the foot of a cool tree.
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ViP 5 6.46
क्वचित् कदम्बस्रक्चित्रौ मयूरस्रग्धरौ क्वचित् विचित्रौ क्वचिद् आसातां विविधैर् गिरिधातुभिः ॥
kvacit kadambasrakcitrau mayūrasragdharau kvacit vicitrau kvacid āsātāṃ vividhair giridhātubhiḥ //
Sometimes the two were adorned with garlands of kadamba flowers, sometimes they wore garlands of peacock feathers, and sometimes they remained variously painted with the many mineral pigments of the mountain.
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ViP 5 6.47
पर्णशय्यासु संसुप्तौ क्वचिन् निद्रान्तरैषिणौ क्वचिद् गर्जति जीमूते हाहाकाररवादृतौ ॥
parṇaśayyāsu saṃsuptau kvacin nidrāntaraiṣiṇau kvacid garjati jīmūte hāhākāraravādṛtau //
Sometimes, asleep on beds of leaves, the two sought a spell of sleep; sometimes, when the cloud thundered, they were engaged in shouts of "hā hā!"
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ViP 5 6.48
गायताम् अन्यगोपानां प्रशंसापरमौ क्वचित् मयूरकेकानुगतौ गोपवेणुप्रवादकौ ॥
gāyatām anyagopānāṃ praśaṃsāparamau kvacit mayūrakekānugatau gopaveṇupravādakau //
Sometimes the two were wholly given to praising the other cowherds who were singing; and, following the peacocks' cries, the two played the cowherds' flutes.
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ViP 5 6.49
इति नानाविधैर् भावैर् उत्तमप्रीतिसंयुतौ क्रीडन्तौ तौ वने तस्मिञ् चेरतुस् तुष्टमानसौ ॥
iti nānāvidhair bhāvair uttamaprītisaṃyutau krīḍantau tau vane tasmiñ ceratus tuṣṭamānasau //
Thus, with moods of many kinds, joined with the highest delight, the two, playing, roamed about in that forest with contented minds.
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ViP 5 6.51
गोपैः समानैः सहितौ क्रीडन्ताव् अमराव् इव ॥
gopaiḥ samānaiḥ sahitau krīḍantāv amarāv iva //
Together with cowherds of their own age, the two played like two gods.
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