Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.45.28

yāḥ kṛṣṇa-rāma-janmarkṣe

mano-dattā mahā-matiḥ

tāś cādadād anusmṛtya

kaḿsenādharmato hṛtāḥ

SYNONYMS

yaḥ — which (cows); kṛṣṇa-rāma — of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma; janmaṛkṣe — on the day of birth; manaḥ — in his mind; dattāḥ — given in charity; mahā-matiḥ — the magnanimous (Vasudeva); tāḥ — them; ca — and; ādadāt — he gave; anusmṛtya — remembering; kaḿsena — by Kaḿsa; adharmataḥ — impiously; hṛtaḥ — taken away.

TRANSLATION

The magnanimous Vasudeva then remembered the cows he had mentally given away on the occasion of Kṛṣṇa's and Balarāma's birth. Kaḿsa had stolen those cows, and Vasudeva now recovered them and gave them away in charity also.

PURPORT

At the time of Kṛṣṇa's appearance, Vasudeva had been imprisoned by Kaḿsa, who had stolen all his cows. Still, Vasudeva had been so jubilant at the birth of the Lord that he had mentally donated ten thousand of his cows to the brāhmaṇas.

Now, upon Kaḿsa's death, Vasudeva took back all his cows from the late King's herd and gave ten thousand of them, according to religious principles, to the worthy brāhmaṇas.

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