Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.64.16

kasyacid dvija-mukhyasya

bhraṣṭā gaur mama go-dhane

sampṛktāviduṣā sā ca

mayā dattā dvijātaye

SYNONYMS

kasyacit — of a certain; dvija — brāhmaṇa; mukhyasya — first class; bhraṣṭā — lost; gauḥ — a cow; mama — my; go-dhane — in the herd; sampṛktā — becoming mixed; aviduṣā — who was unaware; sā — she; ca — and; mayā — by me; dattā — given; dvi-jātaye — to (another) brāhmaṇa.

TRANSLATION

Once a cow belonging to a certain first-class brāhmaṇa wandered away and entered my herd. Unaware of this, I gave that cow in charity to a different brāhmaṇa.

PURPORT

Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the term dvija-mukhya, "first-class brāhmaṇa,'' here indicates a brāhmaṇa who has stopped accepting charity and would thus refuse to accept even one hundred thousand cows in exchange for the cow that had been improperly given away.

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