Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.21.16

drstvatape vraja-pasun saha rama-gopaih

sancarayantam anu venum udirayantam

prema-pravrddha uditah kusumavalibhih

sakhyur vyadhat sva-vapusambuda atapatram

SYNONYMS

drstva -- seeing; atape -- in the full heat of the sun; vraja-pasun -- the domestic animals of Vraja; saha -- together with; rama-gopaih -- Lord Balarama and the cowherd boys; sancarayantam -- herding together; anu -- repeatedly; venum -- His flute; udirayantam -- loudly playing; prema -- out of love; pravrddhah -- expanded; uditah -- rising high; kusuma-avalibhih -- (with droplets of water vapor, which are like) groups of flowers; sakhyuh -- for his friend; vyadhat -- he constructed; sva-vapusa -- out of his own body; ambudah -- the cloud; atapatram -- an umbrella.

TRANSLATION

In the company of Balarama and the cowherd boys, Lord Krsna is continually vibrating His flute as He herds all the animals of Vraja, even under the full heat of the summer sun. Seeing this, the cloud in the sky has expanded himself out of love. He is rising high and constructing out of his own body, with its multitude of flower-like droplets of water, an umbrella for the sake of his friend.

PURPORT

Srila Prabhupada states in his Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: "The scorching heat of the autumn sunshine was sometimes intolerable, and therefore the clouds in the sky appeared in sympathy above Krsna and Balarama and Their boyfriends while They engaged in blowing Their flutes. The clouds served as a soothing umbrella over Their heads just to make friendship with Krsna."

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