विदुर उवाच कस्माद्दधार गोरूपं धरित्री बहुरूपिणी । यां दुदोह पृथुस्तत्र को वत्सो दोहनं च किम् ॥ ३ ॥
vidura uvaca kasmad dadhara go-rupam dharitri bahu-rupini yam dudoha prthus tatra ko vatso dohanam ca kim
- vidurah uvaca
- Vidura inquired
- kasmat
- why
- dadhara
- took
- go-rupam
- the shape of a cow
- dharitri
- the earth
- bahu-rupini
- who has many other forms
- yam
- whom
- dudoha
- milked
- prthuh
- King Prthu
- tatra
- there
- kah
- who
- vatsah
- the calf
- dohanam
- the milking pot
- ca
- also
- kim
- what.
Vidura inquired from the great sage Maitreya: My dear brahmana, since mother earth can appear in different shapes, why did she take the shape of a cow? And when King Prthu milked her, who became the calf, and what was the milking pot?