Devanagari
कुत्रचिद्द्विजमुख्येभ्यो ददतं गा: स्वलङ्कृता: ।
इतिहासपुराणानि शृण्वन्तं मङ्गलानि च ॥ २८ ॥
Verse text
kutracid dvija-mukhyebhyo
dadataṁ gāḥ sv-alaṅkṛtāḥ
itihāsa-purāṇāni
śṛṇvantaṁ maṅgalāni ca
Synonyms
kutracit
—
somewhere
;
dvija
—
to brāhmaṇas
;
mukhyebhyaḥ
—
excellent
;
dadatam
—
giving
;
gāḥ
—
cows
;
su
—
well
;
alaṅkṛtāḥ
—
ornamented
;
itihāsa
—
epic histories
;
purāṇāni
—
and the Purāṇas
;
śṛṇvantam
—
hearing
;
maṅgalāni
—
auspicious
;
ca
—
and .
Translation
Somewhere He was giving well-decorated cows to exalted brāhmaṇas, and elsewhere he was listening to the auspicious narration of epic histories and Purāṇas.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Somewhere He was giving well-decorated cows to exalted brāhmaṇas, and elsewhere he was listening to the auspicious narration of epic histories and Purāṇas.
KB 10.69.28
In another palace He was found giving well-decorated cows in charity to the brāhmaṇas, and in another palace He was found hearing the narrations of the Purāṇas and of histories such as the Mahābhārata, which are supplementary scriptures for disseminating Vedic knowledge to common people by narrating important instances in the history of the universe.
Purport
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī informs us that giving cows in charity occurs in the morning, while hearing the histories takes place in the afternoon.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
He was giving cows in the morning and hearing the histories and puranas in the afternoon. According to the smrti scriptures, one should pass the sixth and seventh parts of the day (afternoon and evening) in hearing histories and puranas.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
The cows had gold horns. Giving cows in charity is generally an activity carried out at noon. Maṅgalāni refers to Vedic sūktas expressing peace or pure songs. These are activities of the afternoon. It is said itihāsa-purāṇabhyaṁ ṣāṣṭa-saptamakau nayet: recitation of histories and Purānās takes place in the sixth and seventh parts of the day (afternoon).
Purport (Sanatana Goswami)
The cows had gold horns. Itihāsa refers to Mahābhārata and other histories. Maṅgalāni refers to Vedic sūktas expressing peace or to pure songs.