तावदेत्यात्मभूरात्ममानेन त्रुट्यनेहसा । पुरोवदाब्दं क्रीडन्तं ददृशे सकलं हरिम् ॥ ४० ॥
tāvad etyātmabhūr ātma- mānena truṭy-anehasā purovad ābdaṁ krīḍantaṁ dadṛśe sa-kalaṁ harim
- tāvat
- for so long
- etya
- after returning
- ātma-bhūḥ
- Lord Brahmā
- ātma-mānena
- by his (Brahmā’s) own measurement
- truṭi-anehasā
- by a moment’s time
- puraḥ-vat
- just as previously
- ā-abdam
- for one year (by human measurement of time)
- krīḍantam
- playing
- dadṛśe
- he saw
- sa-kalam
- along with His expansions
- harim
- Lord Hari (Śrī Kṛṣṇa)
When Lord Brahmā returned after a moment of time had passed (according to his own measurement), he saw that although by human measurement a complete year had passed, Lord Kṛṣṇa, after all that time, was engaged just as before in playing with the boys and calves, who were His expansions.