Brahma Vaivarta Purana
The Festival of Sri Nanda’s son
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
61.All the gopis and brahmanis, young and old, with large hips and the breasts that moved as they ran, hurried to the maternity room. 62.All gave their blessings, happily gazed at the infant boy, placed Him on their laps, and praised Him. Some stayed there. 63.Nanda bathed, put on clean garments, and with a happy heart performed the rituals learned through the disciplic succession. 64.He fed the brahmanas, had them give their auspicious blessings, had the musicians play on their instruments, and gave charity to the poets. 65.Then Nanda happily gave charity to the brahmanas. He respectfully gave them diamonds, coral, and many precious jewels,... 66. ...seven mountains of grains, much gold and silver, a mountain of wealth, many garments, a thousand beautiful cows,... 67. ...yoghurt, milk, rock candy, butter, ghee, honey, many candies, a flood of laddus, many delicious modakas,... 68. ...land rich with many crops, horses fast as the wind, many betel nuts, and much oil. After giving this charity Nanda became happy in his heart. 69.To protect the maternity room he engaged many gopis peaceful at heart and many brahmanas expert at chanting Tantric mantras. 70.He had the brahmanas recite the Vedas, chant Lord Krsna’s holy names, and worship the demigods.
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