Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.64.16
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kasyacit dvija - mukhyasya
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of a certain first-class brāhmaṇa
Dvija (brāhmaṇa) + mukhya (chief, foremost). The cow belonged to a brāhmaṇa of the first rank. The chapter's whole moral hinges on this detail: brāhmaṇa-property is uniquely sacrosanct.
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bhraṣṭā
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lost / wandered away
Past participle of √bhraṁś (to fall, slip). The same root family used later for Nṛga's own falling. The cow's stray begins a chain reaction in which two parties fall — the cow into a herd, the king into a well.
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go - dhane
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in the cattle-wealth
Go (cow) + dhana (wealth). For a kṣatriya, the cow-herd is dhana itself. Among the lakhs of Nṛga's own legitimate wealth, one wrong cow was indistinguishable — exactly how aparādha hides.
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aviduṣā
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by one who was unaware
A- (not) + viduṣ (knowing). The key word of the chapter: even unknowing transfer of brāhmaṇa-property carries consequence. Gauḍīyas read this as warning against the modern assumption that 'intent' alone determines moral weight.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the term dvija-mukhya, “first-class brāhmaṇa, ” here indicates a brāhmaṇa who has stopped accepting charity and would thus refuse to accept even one hundred thousand cows in exchange for the cow that had been improperly given away.
"But what sin made you become a lizard?" This verse answers that question. "Straying from the brahaman, the cow mixed with my herd, not knowing that it belonged to that brahamana (avidusa), I gave the cow to another brahmana."
One cow of the brāhmaṇa wandered into my herd.
A single grain of forbidden food slipped into a perfect feast — and the feast becomes poison. One cow that was not his entered his herd, and the king, unknowing, gifted her away. Gauḍīyas warn: a single misappropriated item, even invisible to the giver, contaminates the entire offering.
My note
Source: vedabase.io