Thereupon the menials announced in the village, saying: "This station
will be transfared to Vrindāvana. Therefore collect your own cows and
calves, get ready your carts and place your own vessels thereon"
(10–11). Hearing those well-meaning words of Nanda they all rose up for
going away speedily (12). Then there was set up a tumult of "Come; let
us go: what is the delay? Make your carts ready. Rise up. Go" (13). With
busy cowherds and milk-women, with their innumerable carts ready that
village assumed the appearance of a roaring ocean (14). The milk-women,
with jars on their heads, and being arranged in rows, like stars coming
out of the sky, issued out of Vraja (15). Having their breasts covered
with blue, yellow, and shining jackets, those milk-women, while going on
the road, appeared like a rain-bow (16). Carrying the load of ropes
hanging on their body some milk-men imitated the beauty of trees covered
with branches and leaves (17). The shining carts moving all around, that
village of cowherds appeared like an ocean abounding in boats upset by
the wind (18). Thus divested of all articles in no time and filled with
crows it appeared like a desert (19).
Thereupon having gradually arrived at the forest of Vrindāvana, they,
for the well-being of the kine, set up many extensive stations there
(20). With roads laid out for carts and situate like a crescent that
forest was one Yoyana in breadth and two in circumference (21). It was
protected on all sides with thorny creepers and trees, ditches and
flying branches (22). It was beautified with charming posts and rods,
with jars full of water for washing, stakes tied round with ropes and
nooses, with upraised pillars, overturned carts, chords thrown upon the
pillars of vessels, grass for covering the huts, sheds made of grass,
with branches of trees, playing hither and thither and trees abounding
in nests, cleansed cow-sheds, well-placed mortars, the burning fire
placed in the west, and well stretched beds consisting of clothes and
leather coatings (23–27). Bringing water and removing the branches of
the trees the milk-women began to cleanse the forest (28). Youthful and
old milk-men with axes, began lightly to fell down the trees (29). This
station of the milk-men, abounding in woods, charming habitations, sweet
roots, fruits and water, appeared more beautiful (30). While ranging in
the forest before, Krishna, with a delighted heart, looked at that
forest for the well-being of the kine. And so obtaining that forest of
Vrindāvana, filled with the nests of various birds and resembling the
garden of Nandana, all the cows, giving milk whenever milched, were
highly pleased (31–32). In the last month of the dreadful summer season,
the king of gods used to pour there nectarine showers. And accordingly
the people there did not suffer from any disease and all the vegetables
grew in profusion. The calves and ignorant people do not suffer any
disease or meet with destruction where the Lord Madhusudana lives
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