148. O dear child, you said, “Mother, what would it matter to you and these lovely women if my ears swell up and hurt?” I didn’t put the thread in your ears when you were young because I was worried it might hurt you. It is my fault. Don’t you see how all the children wandering around the cowherd village have had threads put in their ears? O Rishikesha, you killed Arishtasuran and Vasthasuran by throwing a young calf at them.
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(The words may be rearranged to facilitate conversion from poetry to prose (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continuously to form the sentence and understand the simplified meaning based on the Divyārtha Dīpikai for the verse.)