Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

If I recall correctly, I heard you say that gopis and Nanda Maharaja could not read and write.

In one conversation with devotees, I brought this up and was asked for a scriptural reference.

I searched, but could not find it.

Please, can you give it?

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. I think it was a Lecture, not a Room Conversation. Srila Prabhupada was talking about how the Vrajavasi's were not very big, big scholars or rich, but they had the highest love for Krsna. As I remember Srila Prabhupada said, that Nanda Maharaja could not read or write. He would hire some educated fool to do it for him, what speak of the girls (here Srila Prabhupada's accent was very strong, "Garls"), but they would attend lectures given by the learned Brahmanas and thus they knew everything about the structure of the universe and so forth.

If you can find it with that information it will be wonderful. Please let us know.