Devanagari
वटवत्सा वनस्पतय: पृथग्रसमयं पय: ।
गिरयो हिमवद्वत्सा नानाधातून् स्वसानुषु ॥ २५ ॥
Verse text
vaṭa-vatsā vanaspatayaḥ
pṛthag rasamayaṁ payaḥ
girayo himavad-vatsā
nānā-dhātūn sva-sānuṣu
Synonyms
vaṭa-vatsāḥ
—
making the banyan tree a calf
;
vanaḥ-patayaḥ
—
the trees
;
pṛthak
—
different
;
rasa-mayam
—
in the form of juices
;
payaḥ
—
milk
;
girayaḥ
—
the hills and mountains
;
himavat-vatsāḥ
—
making the Himālayas the calf
;
nānā
—
various
;
dhātūn
—
minerals
;
sva
—
own
;
sānuṣu
—
on their peaks.
Translation
The trees made a calf out of the banyan tree, and thus they derived milk in the form of many delicious juices. The mountains transformed the Himālayas into a calf, and they milked a variety of minerals into a pot made of the peaks of hills.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The trees, making the banyan tree the calf, produced sap as the milk. The mountains, making Himalayas the calf, produced various minerals with the plateau as the pot.