Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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वटवत्सा वनस्पतयः पृथग्रसमयं पयः ।
गिरयो हिमवद्वत्सा नानाधातून्स्वसानुषु ॥२५॥

vaṭa-vatsā vanaspatayaḥ
pṛthag rasamayaṁ payaḥ
girayo himavad-vatsā
nānā-dhātūn sva-sānuṣu

WORD BY WORD

vaṭa-vatsāḥ — making the banyan tree a calf; vanaḥ-patayaḥ — the trees; pṛthak — different; rasa-mayam — in the form of juices; payaḥ — milk; girayaḥ — the hills and mountains; himavat-vatsāḥ — making the Himālayas the calf; nānā — various; dhātūn — minerals; sva — own; sānuṣu — 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 Himālayas into a calf, and they milked a variety of minerals into a pot made of the peaks of hills.

PURPORT

This verse has not purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmi Prabhupāda.



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