Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.85.53

tān dṛṣṭvā bālakān devī

putra-sneha-snuta-stanī

pariṣvajyāńkam āropya

mūrdhny ajighrad abhīkṣṇaśaḥ

SYNONYMS

tān — them; dṛṣṭvā — seeing; bālakān — the boys; devī — the goddess (Devakī); putra — for her sons; sneha — due to her affection; snuta — flowing; stanī — whose breasts; pariṣvajya — embracing; ańkam — on her lap; āropya — placing; mūrdhni — their heads; ajighrat — she smelled; abhīkṣṇaśaḥ — repeatedly.

TRANSLATION

When she saw her lost children, Goddess Devakī felt such affection for them that milk flowed from her breasts. She embraced them and took them onto her lap, smelling their heads again and again.

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