Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.18.27

evaḿ pṛthv-ādayaḥ pṛthvīm

annādāḥ svannam ātmanaḥ

doha-vatsādi-bhedena

kṣīra-bhedaḿ kurūdvaha

SYNONYMS

evam — thus; pṛthu-ādayaḥ — King Pṛthu and others; pṛthvīm — the earth; anna-adāḥ — all living entities desiring food; su-annam — their desired foodstuff; ātmanaḥ — for self-preservation; doha — for milking; vatsa-ādi — by calves, pots and milkers; bhedena — different; kṣīra — milk; bhedam — different; kuru-udvaha — O chief of the Kurus.

TRANSLATION

My dear Vidura, chief of the Kurus, in this way King Pṛthu and all the others who subsist on food created different types of calves and milked out their respective eatables. Thus they received their various foodstuffs, which were symbolized as milk.

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