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# Gopalacampu 1.6.40

Gopālacampū 1.6.40

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.6.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.6.40)

\[29\] atha tasminn anujasya śatatama eva vāsare, vrajaṃ prati prasthite ca muni-vare, vraja-rājas tu jyāyasas tad-dinātikramāt puṇyataraṃ dināntaram eva dvayor api nāma-karaṇasyādhikaraṇaṃ bhaviṣyatīti niścitya, prātar eva tarṇakānāṃ koṭibhir nṛtya-paripāṭībhir āṭīkamānābhir vicitraṃ sthānaṃ go-gopānāṃ vana-prasthānān nirjanāvasthānaṃ gosthānam anusaṃskārālaṅkāra-sambhālanārtham eka-sevaka-mātra-kṛtānuvrajanatayā kṛta-vrajanaḥ sa-kṛpatayā tān paśyann āsīt | tatraiva ca sarvato' py atirikte vivikte bālyata eva kṛta-sevaṃ nija-devaṃ sarva-sal-lakṣaṇa-nandita-nikhilāyāṃ śrīmal-lakṣmī-nārāyaṇākhya-śālagrāma-śilāyām aṣṭākṣareṇopatiṣṭhamānaś cirād virājate sma | kṛta-samāpane ca sabhājane sarva-sarvajña-gurur muni-pariṣadām  
ururvāṇī-vāsita-sāmā śrī-garga-nāmā vāraṃ vāraṃ niṣkrama-dvāraṃ vilokamānena gopa-loka-pradhānena tasmād akasmāt tarṇakānām utkarṇatā-nirvarṇanayā kasyacid āgamanaṃ vitarkayatā turṇam abhyarṇata eva niravarṇi | tadā ca-

> Then, on that very hundredth day of the younger brother, when the excellent sage set out for Vraja, the king of Vraja, however—having resolved that, since that day had passed for the elder brother, another more auspicious day would serve as the occasion for the name-giving ceremony of both of them—had gone early in the morning, accompanied only by a single servant, to inspect the cleaning and decoration of the cow-shed, a place made charming by millions of calves dancing in rows as they bounded forward, but devoid of people because the cows and cowherds had departed for the woods, and he stood looking upon them with tender affection. And in that very place, in a secluded spot secluded above all else, he had long been shining forth, worshipping with the eight-syllable mantra his personal deity, worshipped since his childhood, in a splendid Śālagrāma stone called Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa that delighted everyone with all its auspicious marks. And when his worship of honor was completed, the chief among the cowherds, who was repeatedly watching the exit gate, suddenly guessed that someone was arriving from observing the perked-up ears of the calves, and right nearby he quickly caught sight of Śrī Garga, the preceptor of the omniscient sages among the assemblies of ascetics, whose Sāma chants were perfumed by profound speech. And then—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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