Verse 26

²⁶Is that great forest good for the cattle now, free of sickness, with plenty of water and grass and herbs, where you live with your friends around you? ²⁷Brother, is my son well in your camp, with his mother, taking you for his father, and petted by the two of you? ²⁸The three ends are laid down for a man, and they are had along with his friends. When his friends are in distress, the three ends serve no purpose. ²⁹Oh, those sons of Devaki, and there were many of them, were killed by Kamsa. One was left, the youngest, a girl, and she too went to heaven. ³⁰Surely this man of ours rests upon the unseen and has the unseen for his highest. And whoever knows the unseen to be what he himself really is does not lose his way.

³¹The yearly tax has been given to the king, and we have seen you. You should not stay here many days: there are strange happenings in the cow settlement. ³²So spoken to by Sura's son, Nanda and the other cowherds took their leave of him and went back to the cow settlement in their carts, yoked to bullocks.