स्फीतांजनपदांस्तत्र पुरग्रामव्रजाकरान् खेटखर्वटवाटीश्च वनान्युपवनानि च
sphītāñjanapadāṁs tatra pura-grāma-vrajākarān kheṭakharvaṭavāṭīś ca vanānyupavanāni ca
Synonyms
sphītān—very flourishing; jana-padān—metropolises; tatra—there; pura—towns; grāma—villages; vraja—big farms; ākarān—mineral fields (mines); kheṭa—agricultural lands; kharvaṭa—valleys; vāṭīḥ—flower gardens; ca—and; vanāni—forests; upavanāni—nursery gardens; ca—and..
Translation
After my departure, I passed through many flourishing metropolises, towns, villages, animal farms, mines, agricultural lands, valleys, flower gardens, nursery gardens and natural forests.
Purport
Man's activities in the fields of agriculture, mining, farming, industries, gardening, etc., were all on the same scale as they are now, even previous to the present creation, and the same activities will remain as they are, even in the next creation. After many hundreds of millions of years, one creation is started by the law of nature, and the history of the universe repeats itself practically in the same way. The mundane wranglers waste time with archeological excavations without searching into the vital necessities of life. Śrī Nārada Muni, even though he was a mere child, after getting an impetus in spiritual life, did not waste time for a single moment with economic development, although he passed towns and villages, mines and industries. He continually went on to progressive spiritual emancipation. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the repetition of a history which happened some hundreds of millions of years before. As it is said herein, only the most important factors of history are picked up to be recorded in this transcendental literature.