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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 4.18.27
annadah svannam atmanah
SYNONYMS
evam -- thus; prithu-adayah -- King Prithu and others; prithvim -- the earth; anna-adah -- all living entities desiring food; su-annam -- their desired foodstuff; atmanah -- for self-preservation; doha -- for milking; vatsa-adi -- by calves, pots and milkers; bhedena -- different; kshira -- milk; bhedam -- different; kuru-udvaha -- O chief of the Kurus.
TRANSLATION
My dear Vidura, chief of the Kurus, in this way King Prithu and all the others who subsist on food created different types of calves and milked out their respective eatables. Thus they received their various foodstuffs, which were symbolized as milk.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness