The Transcendental Cows,

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> Krsna had one cow he named Mrdanga-Mukhi...Balarama das writes back.

 

 

I offer this transcendental description of cows from Krsnas pastimes to make

up for the less transcendental stuff I come up with...

 

In the Srimad Bhagavatam 10.35.21. Purport by Srila Prabhupada..

 

Srila Jiva Gosvami explains that in the afternoon Sri Krsna dressed Himself

in new clothing and then went out to call the cows home.

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti gives the following information about the

transcendental cows of Vrindavana: For each of the four colors of cows -

white, red, black and yellow - there are twenty five subdivisions, making a

total of one hundred colors. And such qualities as being colored like

sandalwood-pulp tilaka (speckled) or having a head shaped like a mrdanga

drum created eight further groups. To count these 108 groups of cows,

distinguished by color and form, Krsna is using a string of 108

jewel-beads... (gems)

 

......"Those in the group with tilak marks on their foreheads are called

Citrita, Citra-tilaka, Dirgha-tilaka and Tiryak-tilaka, and there are groups

known as Mrdanga-mukhi (having a head shaped like a mrdanga drum),

Simha-mukhi (lion head) and so on.

 

"Thus being called by name, the cows are coming forward, and Krsna, thinking

that when it is time to bring them back from the forest none should be

forgotten, is counting them on His jewel-beads."

 

In S.B.10.19.7..it says..

 

The Supreme Personality of Godhead called out to the animals in a voice that

resounded like a rumbling cloud. Hearing the sound of their own names, the

cows were overjoyed and called out to the Lord in reply.

 

 

I am sending this to illustrate how Krsna protects his cows

(go-dhanams-herds of cows) by always counting and calling out their names.

 

It describes Krsnas evening pastime so nicely and is a purely Krsna

conscious way of looking at our mothers.

 

ys jjd