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ŚB 10.90.41

Devanagari

तिस्र: कोट्य: सहस्राणामष्टाशीतिशतानि च ।
आसन् यदुकुलाचार्या: कुमाराणामिति श्रुतम् ॥ ४१ ॥

Text

tisraḥ koṭyaḥ sahasrāṇām
aṣṭāśīti-śatāni ca
āsan yadu-kulācāryāḥ
kumārāṇām iti śrutam

Synonyms

tisraḥ — three; koṭyaḥ — (times) ten million; sahasrāṇām — thousand; aṣṭā-aśīti — eighty-eight; śatāni — hundreds; ca — and; āsan — were; yadu-kula — of the Yadu family; ācāryāḥ — teachers; kumārāṇām — for the children; iti — thus; śrutam — has been heard.

Translation

I have heard from authoritative sources that the Yadu family employed 38,800,000 teachers just to educate their children.