{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/psa/psa15.htm","path":"hin/psa/psa15.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/psa/psa15.htm","text":"SHREE SHOOKDEO said,--Raja! having thus destroyed Ooghasoor, Shree Krishn\u00f9 Chund having collected the calves, and taking his companions with him, proceeded on his road. Having gone some distance, standing under the shade of a kudum tree, playing on the flute, and calling all the cowherds' children, he said, \"Brothers! this is a nice place, why need we go farther? let us sit down here and eat.\"\nOn hearing this, they drove away the calves to graze, and having brought leaves of different trees, and made them into plates and cups, sweeping the place clean, they sat down in rows on all sides of Krishn\u00f9, and producing their provisions, began to serve them out.\nWhen they had finished serving them out, Shree Krishn\u00f9 standing in the midst, having first himself taken a mouthful, gave the order for them to eat. They began to eat; and amongst them, Shree Krishn\u00f9 with a peacock crown, a necklace of various flowers reaching to his feet, with a club in his hand, standing awry, and dressed in yellow silk, laughing gave them all some of his own food; and taking some from the plate of each, tasting it he pronounced upon the different flavours; the bitter, sweet, hot and pungent; and appeared as beautiful in that assembly, as the moon among the stars. At this time\n[paragraph continues] Bruhm\u00f9 and all the gods seated in their chariots looked down from the sky on the enjoyments of the cowherds' assembly. Bruhm\u00f9, having come down from amongst them, stole and took away all the calves; and whilst the cowherds were eating, happening to think about them, they said to Krishn\u00f9, \"Brother! we are sitting here at our ease, and eating; who knows where the calves may have gone to?\"\nThen Krishn\u00f9 said to the cowherds, \"Do you all remain feasting; let no one get up, or be at all anxious; I will collect the calves belonging to all, and bring them here.\"\nHaving thus said, and gone some distance into the jungle, when he found out that Bruhm\u00f9 had stolen and carried off the calves, Shree Krishn\u00f9 made others exactly like them, and brought them with him. On his return, he perceived that Bruhm\u00f9 had taken off the cowherds' children also. He then also created other children, exactly like those that had been taken away; and as it was evening, brought them all with him to Brindabun. The cowherds' children went to their homes, but none discovered the secret, that the children did not belong to them; on the contrary, affection for them increased daily. Having narrated thus much, Shree Shookdeo said,--O great king! Bruhm\u00f9 having taken off the cowherds' children and calves, shutting them up in a mountain cave, and blocking up the entrance with a stone, fell into a state of forgetfulness regarding the circumstance; and Shree Krishn\u00f9 constantly engaged in new sports. After the lapse of a year, Bruhm\u00f9 recollected what he had done, and began to say to himself, \"One of my moments has not passed, but a year of mortals has elapsed; I must therefore go and see what has been the state of Bruj without the cowherds' children and the calves.\"\nThinking thus, he rose and came to the cave, where he had shut them all up. Having raised the stone, he saw, that the children and the calves had fallen into a deep sleep. Departing thence, and coming to Brindabun, when he beheld the children and calves exactly as before, he was astonished, and\nbegan to say, \"How have the cowherds and calves come here, or has Krishn\u00f9 created these new ones?\" Saying this he went again to look at the cave. Whilst he was looking at them, Krishn\u00f9 created such a delusion, that all the cowherds' children and calves became four-armed, and Bruhm\u00f9, Roodr\u00f9 and Indr\u00f9 with hands joined, stood before each. Bruhm\u00f9, on beholding, became like a picture: all intelligence and thoughts were forgotten (that is departed from him) just as a stone Dewee with four faces would be grieved without worshippers and worship.\nAnd being frightened, and shutting his eyes, he began to tremble. When Shree Krishn\u00f9, acquainted with the secret thoughts of all, found that Bruhm\u00f9 was very much alarmed, he took away the parts of which the rest were composed, and remained himself alone, just as separate clouds are formed into one.","title":"Prem Sagar: Chapter XIV","type":"page"}