तस्मै स नरदेवाय मुनिरर्हणमाहरत् ।
ससैन्यामात्यवाहाय हविष्मत्या तपोधनः ॥२४॥

tasmai sa naradevÄya
munir arhaṇam Äharat
sasainyÄmÄtya-vÄhÄya
haviá¹£matyÄ tapo-dhanaḥ

 tasmai - unto him; saḥ - he (Jamadagni); naradevÄya - unto King KÄrtavÄ«ryÄrjuna; muniḥ - the great sage; arhaṇam - paraphernalia for worship; Äharat - offered; sa-sainya - with his soldiers; amÄtya - his ministers; vÄhÄya - and the chariots, the elephants, the horses or the men who carried the palanquins; haviá¹£matyÄ - because of possessing a kÄmadhenu, a cow that could supply everything; tapaḥ-dhanaḥ - the great sage, whose only power was his austerity, or who was engaged in austerity.


Text

The sage Jamadagni, who was engaged in great austerities in the forest, received the King very well, along with the King’s soldiers, ministers and carriers. He supplied all the necessities to worship these guests, for he possessed a kÄmadhenu cow that was able to supply everything.

Purport

The Brahma-saá¹hitÄ informs us that the spiritual world, and especially the planet Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana, where Kṛṣṇa lives, is full of surabhi cows (surabhÄ«r abhipÄlayantam). The surabhi cow is also called kÄmadhenu. Although Jamadagni possessed only one kÄmadhenu, he was able to get from it everything desirable. Thus he was able to receive the King, along with the King’s great number of followers, ministers, soldiers, animals and palanquin carriers. When we speak of a king, we understand that he is accompanied by many followers. Jamadagni was able to receive all the King’s followers properly and feed them sumptuously with food prepared in ghee. The King was astonished at how opulent Jamadagni was because of possessing only one cow, and therefore he became envious of the great sage. This was the beginning of his offense. ParaÅ›urÄma, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, killed KÄrtavÄ«ryÄrjuna because KÄrtavÄ«ryÄrjuna was too proud. One may possess unusual opulence in this material world, but if one becomes puffed up and acts whimsically he will be punished by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the lesson to learn from this history, in which ParaÅ›urÄma became angry at KÄrtavÄ«ryÄrjuna and killed him and rid the entire world of ká¹£atriyas twenty-one times.