SB 10.7.37

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Tenth Canto - Chapter 7: The Killing of the Demon Tṛṇāvarta

SB 10.7.35-36 - SB 10.8.1

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 37

sā vīkṣya viśvaṁ sahasā

rājan sañjāta-vepathuḥ

sammīlya mṛgaśāvākṣī

netre āsīt suvismitā

SYNONYMS

sā — mother Yaśodā; vīkṣya — by seeing; viśvam — the whole universe; sahasā — suddenly within the mouth of her son; rājan — O King (Mahārāja Parīkṣit); sañjāta-vepathuḥ — whose heart was beating; sammīlya — opening; mṛgaśāva-akṣī — like the eyes of a deer cub; netre — her two eyes; āsīt — became; su-vismitā — astonished.

TRANSLATION

When mother Yaśodā saw the whole universe within the mouth of her child, her heart began to throb, and in astonishment she wanted to close her restless eyes.

PURPORT

Because of her pure maternal love, mother Yaśodā thought that this wonderful child playing so many tricks must have had some disease. She did not appreciate the wonders shown by her child; rather, she wanted to close her eyes. She was expecting another danger, and therefore her eyes became restless like those of a deer cub. This was all the arrangement of yogamāyā. The relationship between mother Yaśodā and Kṛṣṇa is one of pure maternal love. In that love, mother Yaśodā did not very much appreciate the display of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's opulences.

At the beginning of this chapter, two extra verses sometimes appear:

evaṁ bahūni karmāṇi

gopānāṁ śaṁ sa-yoṣitām

nandasya gehe vavṛdhe

kurvan viṣṇu-janārdanaḥ

"In this way, to chastise and kill the demons, the child Kṛṣṇa demonstrated many activities in the house of Nanda Mahārāja, and the inhabitants of Vraja enjoyed these incidents."

evaṁ sa vavṛdhe viṣṇur

nanda-gehe janārdanaḥ

kurvann aniśam ānandaṁ

gopālānāṁ sa-yoṣitām

"To increase the transcendental pleasure of the gopas and the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa, the killer of all demons, was thus raised by His father and mother, Nanda and Yaśodā."

Śrīpāda Vijayadhvaja Tīrtha also adds another verse after the third verse in this chapter:

vistareṇeha kāruṇyāt

sarva-pāpa-praṇāśanam

vaktum arhasi dharma-jña

dayālus tvam iti prabho

"Parīkṣit Mahārāja then requested Śukadeva Gosvāmī to continue speaking such narrations about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, so that the King could enjoy from them transcendental bliss."

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Tenth Canto, Seventh Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled "The Killing of the Demon Tṛṇāvarta."

SB 10.7.35-36 - SB 10.8.1