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SB 4.18.25

Devanāgarī

वटवत्सा वनस्पतय: पृथग्रसमयं पय: । गिरयो हिमवद्वत्सा नानाधातून् स्वसानुषु ॥ २५ ॥

Text

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

Synonyms

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.

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