Many years passed and the two cowherds not only grew to man's estate but became old and infirm, needing the assistance of others to look after their flocks.
Nanda and the cowherds had places appropriated to them, at the end of which sat Akrura and Vasudeva.
And loud was the yell of woe set up by the cowherds smitten by those warriors in that terrible conflict.
And on being asked by the shepherds and cowherds regarding the corpse, those repressers of foes said unto them, 'This is our mother, aged one hundred and eighty years.
On Krishna's Nativity Day took place the ceremony of Nanda's grand festival, at which the Master with His bhaktas personated the cowherds [of Mathura].
So the cowherds took the sweetmeats and ate them all up.
He stuck a pole into the ground, and ran and fetched ropes, and tied the cowherds hand and foot to the pole.
Now, the cowherds were so poor they could not buy bread every day, and sometimes they ate bread which was twelve days old.
Jamna said she would be very careful, and took the box; but she had to pass through a jungle in which were a number of cowherds and holy men, one of whom was called Ganga.
When the mouse arrived, the cowherds were eating their bread, and it was very stale and mouldy.
They are said to be Rajputs, and to be descended from Mota and Mola, the cowherds of Krishna.
On being challenged by the sentries they said they were cowherds and that their cattle were following close behind.
The upbringing of Krishna among the cowherdsand his flirtations with the milkmaids are again and again mentioned in these works, but the word Abhira does not occur even once in this connection.
Hence the conclusion may safely be drawn that the Abhiras were by no means connected with Krishna and his cowherds even as late as about A.
If the Abhiras had really been the descendants of the cowherds (Gopas) whose hero was Krishna, the name of the rival god Siva would never have formed components of the names of the Abhiras, whom we find mentioned in inscriptions.
In his incarnation of Krishna, Vishnu sported with the children of the cowherds of Vrinda and sportively lowed as a cow.
There he beheld many populous villages, and many kinds of food and drink and viands and habitations of cowherds swelling with men and many herds of cattle.
After grazing their fill, the cattle all collected at the midday resting place and the cowherds were so sleepy after their night's dancing, that they fell fast asleep on the bare ground.
The sipahis reported to the Raja how the cowherds had all made good their escape, and how the paramanik's herd boy had driven off the cattle.
If he found any cattle or buffaloes grazing anywhere near his crops, he had the cowherds beaten severely: so that no one dared to take the cattle in that direction.
The Raja happened to pass that way and was filled with wrath at the sight; he at once ordered his sipahis to go and beat the cowherds within an inch of their lives and so the sipahis ran to the place with sticks.
The cowherds at once ran off and told the owner of the lost goat.
So the Santals went off to fetch the wounded cowherds and carried them to the Raja, all lying senseless on beds and put them down before him.
The cattle stood by the well, huddling in the shade, waiting to be watered, and rude cowherds and goatherds gathered around us in groups which were no doubt not far different in dress or language from Joseph's brethren four thousand years ago.
By and by he came to where some cowherdswere herding their cattle.
So just for the fun of the thing, and to amuse themselves at the Rat's expense, the cowherds loosened the buffalo's halter and began to tie it to the little animal's tail.
And when the cowherds roared with laughter he took no notice, but trotted on, looking as dignified as possible.
The cowherds and the dairy-girls collected their different implements, and resumed their march to the melancholy music of the bells, which formed a deep contrast to the wild notes that had just filled the square.
But at sunset the cowherdsdrove the cattle inside the stockade of the village for the night, to keep them safe from wild beasts; and then the women used to come out to milk the cows.
For nine days ago a party of their men attacked our cowherds, who were tending the cattle on the hill-side; and they drove off the cattle and slew one of the cowherds that was an old man, and carried off two young men to their village.
Once or twice she had watched the cowherds at the castle, and she hardly dared to think of anything now in that dear home.
Peasant fare," thought Laura; "such as our cowherds at home have.
And thus He lived and played and sported, and the hearts of all the cowherds and of their wives and daughters went out to that marvellous child.
And he was honoured in a suitable way by those cowherdsand then spent the night in a manner befitting a king.
A spurious animation soon enabled the Boy to start on again; one of the cowherds pointed out the path, and for a time all went well with our little band, even Fanny and Souris having revived on black crusts of mediæval bread.
The low building was a rough stone châlet with two or three cowherds outside the door, and these men stared in surprise and curiosity at our ghostly party.
This is also a cattle feast, and cowherds come round half drunk and collect presents from their employers.
The cowherds are then called in, and they salute the whole, and are fed with rice and sweets.
This celebrated air is played on the bagpipes, as well as sung by the young Swiss cowherds while watching their cattle on the mountains.
The Ahirs or cowherds and graziers probably take their name from the Abhiras, another of the Scythian tribes.
Krishna created new ones to replace them, exactly similar to those lost, but Brahma subsequently returned the originals, and the Bargahas are the descendants of the artificial cowherds created by Krishna.
Then kill him; but kill gwars or cowherds any time, for they are invariably rascals.
I have frequently seen it practised by the cowherds on the Koosee derahs, i.
King Eterscél's folk espy that house and suppose that it was food that thecowherds kept there.
Some days later Nanda learns of Kansa's order to seize all male children and, deeming it prudent to offer presents, he collects the cowherds in a body and goes to Mathura to pay tribute.
His demon minions are still on the alert, attacking any likely boy, and as Krishna plays with the cowherds and tends the calves, he suffers a further series of attacks.
The cowherds and the cattle drink some of it, are taken ill, but revive at Krishna's glance.
Accordingly, he instructs a friend, Udho, to go to Brindaban, meet the cowherds and make excuses for his absence.
Krishna, however, has appeared blandly indifferent--going to the forest, playing with the cowherds but coldly ignoring the cowgirls themselves.
Yet it is part of the story that these flashes of insight should be evanescent--that having realized one instant that Krishna is God, the cowherds should regard him the next instant as one of themselves.
It is rather that in painting these pictures, he has treated Krishna as a symbol of rural vitality, a figure whose boisterous career among the cowherds is an exact reflection of his own attitudes and enthusiasms.
Sur Das) ii With Krishna in their midst the cowherdscome to their homes.
The cowherds applaud this advice, resolve to abandon the gods and in their place to worship the mountain, Govardhana.
As he does so, the storm lightens, the wind drops and the cowherds and cowgirls regain their homes.
From time to time he has disclosed his true nature as Vishnu but almost immediately has exercised his 'illusory' power and prevented the cowherds from remembering it.
The cowherds recognize it, but while they are wondering how to escape, the crane opens its beak and engulfs Krishna.
Krishna is lifting Mount Govardhana on his little finger and Nanda, the cowherds and cowgirls are sheltering underneath.
Well, then, before Hyagnis the majority of musicians could do no more than the shepherds orcowherds of Vergil who Made sorry strains on pipes of scrannel straw.
Steering north, Diaz now fell in with land--land with cattle near the shore and cowherds tending them, but the black cowherds were so alarmed at the sight of the Portuguese that they fled away inland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowherds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
