ततोऽनुज्ञाप्य भगवान् स्वभुवं प्रागवस्थितान् । वत्सान् पुलिनमानिन्ये यथापूर्वसखं स्वकम् ॥ ४२ ॥
tato ’nujñāpya bhagavān sva-bhuvaṁ prāg avasthitān vatsān pulinam āninye yathā-pūrva-sakhaṁ svakam
- tataḥ
- then
- anujñāpya
- giving permission
- bhagavān
- the Supreme Lord
- sva-bhuvam
- to His own son (Brahmā)
- prāk
- from before
- avasthitān
- situated
- vatsān
- the calves
- pulinam
- to the shore of the river
- āninye
- He brought
- yathā-pūrva
- just as before
- sakham
- where the friends were present
- svakam
- His own
After granting His son Brahmā permission to leave, the Supreme Personality of Godhead took the calves, who were still where they had been a year earlier, and brought them to the riverbank, where He had been taking His meal and where His cowherd boyfriends remained just as before.