Harivamsha — Chapter 50

HV 50.2

सा यत्र रोहिणी देवी वसुदेवसुखावहा तत्र तं बालसूर्याभं कृष्णं गूढं न्यवेशयत् ॥ ह्व्_४९।३० वसुदेवप्रयुक्तश् च तयोर् गर्गो महातपाः । अकरोज् जातकर्माद्याः क्रियाः सर्वा यथाक्रमम् । ब्राह्मणेभ्यो धनं दत्त्वा भोजनं च यथाक्रमम् । गोपाश् चैवोत्सवं चक्रुर् गोभ्यो विप्रेभ्य एव च । तत्र तस्यासतः कालः सुमहान् अत्यवर्तत गोव्रजे नन्दगोपस्य बल्लवत्वं प्रकुर्वतः ॥ ह्व्_५०।१ (गर्गश् च) [गर्गो] गोपकुले तत्र वसुदेवप्रचोदितः । प्रच्छन्न एव गोपानां संस्कारान् अकरोत् तयोः । दारकौ कृतनामानौ ववृधाते सुखं च तौ ज्येष्ठः संकर्षणो नाम यवीयान् कृष्ण एव तु

sā yatra rohiṇī devī vasudevasukhāvahā tatra taṃ bālasūryābhaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ gūḍhaṃ nyaveśayat // HV_49.30 vasudevaprayuktaś ca tayor gargo mahātapāḥ | akaroj jātakarmādyāḥ kriyāḥ sarvā yathākramam | brāhmaṇebhyo dhanaṃ dattvā bhojanaṃ ca yathākramam | gopāś caivotsavaṃ cakrur gobhyo viprebhya eva ca | tatra tasyāsataḥ kālaḥ sumahān atyavartata govraje nandagopasya ballavatvaṃ prakurvataḥ // HV_50.1 (gargaś ca) [gargo] gopakule tatra vasudevapracoditaḥ | pracchanna eva gopānāṃ saṃskārān akarot tayoḥ | dārakau kṛtanāmānau vavṛdhāte sukhaṃ ca tau jyeṣṭhaḥ saṃkarṣaṇo nāma yavīyān kṛṣṇa eva tu

There, where the lady Rohiṇī was, who brought joy to Vasudeva, there he secretly settled Kṛṣṇa, who had the splendour of the infant sun. (49.30) And Garga of great austerity, employed by Vasudeva, performed for the two of them all the rites beginning with the birth-ceremony, in due order; having given wealth to the brahmins and food as well, in due order, the cowherds too held a festival for the cows and for the brahmins. There a very long time passed for him as he dwelt in the cow-station of Nanda the cowherd, doing the work of a herdsman. (50.1) And Garga, urged on by Vasudeva, there in the cowherd clan performed the sacraments for the two, secretly, among the cowherds. The two boys, once named, grew up happily: the elder was named Saṃkarṣaṇa, and the younger was Kṛṣṇa.

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HV 50.4

मेघकृष्णस् तु कृष्णो ऽभूद् देहान्तरगतो हरिः व्यवर्धत गवां मध्ये सागरस्य इवाम्बुदः ॥ ह्व्_५०।३ विस्तरेणाथ वक्ष्यामि बालस्य चरितं महत् । अवधानपरो भूत्वा शृणु राजन् यद् इच्छसि ॥ स तत्र योगम् आस्थाय दानवांश् चावधीत् किल ॥ कश्चिद् दनोः सुतो वीरः कृष्णस्य वधकाङ्क्षया । नन्दस्य प्रियताम् आयाच् छाकटं वपुर् उद्वहन् । शकटस्य त्व् अधः सुप्तं कदाचित् पुत्रगृद्धिनी यशोदा तं समुत्सृज्य जगाम यमुनां नदीम्

meghakṛṣṇas tu kṛṣṇo 'bhūd dehāntaragato hariḥ vyavardhata gavāṃ madhye sāgarasya ivāmbudaḥ // HV_50.3 vistareṇātha vakṣyāmi bālasya caritaṃ mahat | avadhānaparo bhūtvā śṛṇu rājan yad icchasi || sa tatra yogam āsthāya dānavāṃś cāvadhīt kila || kaścid danoḥ suto vīraḥ kṛṣṇasya vadhakāṅkṣayā | nandasya priyatām āyāc chākaṭaṃ vapur udvahan | śakaṭasya tv adhaḥ suptaṃ kadācit putragṛddhinī yaśodā taṃ samutsṛjya jagāma yamunāṃ nadīm

Kṛṣṇa was dark as a cloud — Hari, who had entered another body — and he grew up among the cows like a rain-cloud over the ocean. (50.3) Now I shall relate at length the great deeds of the boy; be attentive and hear, O king, what you wish. There, taking his stand in yoga, he slew the Dānavas, so it is said. A certain valiant son of Danu, wishing to kill Kṛṣṇa, took on the form of a cart and gained a place of favour with Nanda. Once, when (Kṛṣṇa) lay asleep beneath the cart, Yaśodā, eager (in her love) for her son, left him there and went to the river Yamunā.

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HV 50.5

शिशुलीलां ततः कुर्वन् स्वहस्तचरणौ क्षिपन् अङ्गुष्ठम् आस्ये निक्षिप्य पादाभ्यां परिचिक्षिपन् । हास्यं कुर्वञ् शिशुः कृष्णो नेत्राभ्यां परिविभ्रमन् ॥ करं करेण संपीड्य पादं पादेन पीडयन् । अनेकाभिः स लीलाभिर् लोकांस् तद्गतमानसान् । कल्मषं क्षालयन् विष्णुस् तद्गतासक्तचेतसाम् । रुरोद मधुरं कृष्णः पादाव् ऊर्ध्वं प्रसारयन्

śiśulīlāṃ tataḥ kurvan svahastacaraṇau kṣipan aṅguṣṭham āsye nikṣipya pādābhyāṃ paricikṣipan | hāsyaṃ kurvañ śiśuḥ kṛṣṇo netrābhyāṃ parivibhraman || karaṃ kareṇa saṃpīḍya pādaṃ pādena pīḍayan | anekābhiḥ sa līlābhir lokāṃs tadgatamānasān | kalmaṣaṃ kṣālayan viṣṇus tadgatāsaktacetasām | ruroda madhuraṃ kṛṣṇaḥ pādāv ūrdhvaṃ prasārayan

Then, playing the play of an infant, throwing about his own hands and feet, putting his big toe into his mouth and kicking with both feet, the infant Kṛṣṇa, laughing and rolling his eyes about, pressing hand with hand and foot with foot — with his many sports Viṣṇu was washing away the sin of the worlds whose minds were fixed on him, of those whose thoughts clung to him — Kṛṣṇa cried sweetly, stretching his feet upward.

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HV 50.6

स तत्रैकेन पादेन शकटं पर्यवर्तयत् अञ्जनेन परिक्षिप्तं मुखम् उन्नमयन् हरिः । न्युब्जं पयोधराकाङ्क्षी चकार च रुरोद च

sa tatraikena pādena śakaṭaṃ paryavartayat añjanena parikṣiptaṃ mukham unnamayan hariḥ | nyubjaṃ payodharākāṅkṣī cakāra ca ruroda ca

There with one foot he overturned the cart; and Hari, lifting up his face, which was smeared with eye-black, and wanting the breast, both turned it upside down and cried.

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HV 50.7

एतस्मिन्न् अन्तरे प्राप्ता यशोदा शीघ्रगामिनी स्नाता प्रस्नवदिग्धाङ्गी बद्धवत्सेव सौरभी

etasminn antare prāptā yaśodā śīghragāminī snātā prasnavadigdhāṅgī baddhavatseva saurabhī

Meanwhile Yaśodā arrived, walking swiftly, bathed, her limbs smeared with the flow of her milk, like a cow whose calf is tied up.

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HV 50.8

सा ददर्श विपर्यस्तं शकटं वायुना विना हाहेति कृत्वा त्वरिता दारकं जगृहे तदा

sā dadarśa viparyastaṃ śakaṭaṃ vāyunā vinā hāheti kṛtvā tvaritā dārakaṃ jagṛhe tadā

She saw the cart overturned, though there had been no wind; crying "Alas, alas!" she hastily took up the child then.

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HV 50.9

न सा बुबोध तत् तेन शकटं परिवर्तितम् स्वस्ति मे दारकायेति प्रीत्या भीता च साभवत्

na sā bubodha tat tena śakaṭaṃ parivartitam svasti me dārakāyeti prītyā bhītā ca sābhavat

She did not understand that the cart had been overturned by him; "May it be well with my child!" (she said), and she was both loving and afraid.

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HV 50.10

किं नु वक्ष्यति ते पुत्र पिता परमकोपनः त्वय्य् अधः शकटे सुप्ते शकटे च विलोडिते

kiṃ nu vakṣyati te putra pitā paramakopanaḥ tvayy adhaḥ śakaṭe supte śakaṭe ca viloḍite

"What will your father, who is exceedingly quick to anger, say, my son, when you were sleeping under the cart and the cart has been overthrown?

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HV 50.11

किं मे स्नानेन दुःस्नानं किं च मे गमने नदीम् पर्यस्ते शकटे पुत्र या त्वा पश्याम्य् अपावृतम्

kiṃ me snānena duḥsnānaṃ kiṃ ca me gamane nadīm paryaste śakaṭe putra yā tvā paśyāmy apāvṛtam

What good was my bathing — an ill-omened bath! — and what of my going to the river, when, son, the cart is overturned and I see you thus uncovered?"

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HV 50.12

एतस्मिन्न् अन्तरे गोभिर् आजगाम वनेचरः काषाये वाससी बिभ्रन् नन्दगोपो व्रजान्तिकम्

etasminn antare gobhir ājagāma vanecaraḥ kāṣāye vāsasī bibhran nandagopo vrajāntikam

Meanwhile, Nanda the cowherd, who roams the woods, came with the cows near to the settlement, wearing his two reddish-brown garments.

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HV 50.13

स ददर्श विपर्यस्तं भिन्नभाण्डघटीघटम् अपास्तधूर्विभग्नाक्षं शकटं चक्रमालि वै

sa dadarśa viparyastaṃ bhinnabhāṇḍaghaṭīghaṭam apāstadhūrvibhagnākṣaṃ śakaṭaṃ cakramāli vai

He saw the cart overturned, its pots and jars and vessels broken, its pole cast off and its axle shattered, its wheels awry.

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HV 50.14

भीतस् त्वरितम् आगम्य सहसा साश्रुलोचनः अपि मे स्वस्ति पुत्रायेत्य् असकृद् वचनं वदन्

bhītas tvaritam āgamya sahasā sāśrulocanaḥ api me svasti putrāyety asakṛd vacanaṃ vadan

Frightened, he came quickly, all at once, with tears in his eyes, saying again and again the words: "Is it well with my son?"

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HV 50.15

पिबन्तं स्तनम् आलक्ष्य पुत्रं स्वस्थो ऽब्रवीत् पुनः वृषयुद्धं विना केन पर्यस्तं शकटं मम

pibantaṃ stanam ālakṣya putraṃ svastho 'bravīt punaḥ vṛṣayuddhaṃ vinā kena paryastaṃ śakaṭaṃ mama

Seeing his son drinking at the breast, he became calm and spoke again: "By whom, apart from a fight of bulls, was my cart overturned?"

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HV 50.16

प्रत्युवाच यशोदा तं भीता गद्गदभाषिणी न विजानाम्य् अहं केन शकटं पातितं भुवि

pratyuvāca yaśodā taṃ bhītā gadgadabhāṣiṇī na vijānāmy ahaṃ kena śakaṭaṃ pātitaṃ bhuvi

Yaśodā, frightened, answered him with faltering speech: "I do not know by whom the cart was thrown down to the ground.

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HV 50.17

अहं गता नदीम् आर्य चैलप्रक्षालनार्थिनी आगता च विपर्यस्तम् अपश्यं शकटं भुवि

ahaṃ gatā nadīm ārya cailaprakṣālanārthinī āgatā ca viparyastam apaśyaṃ śakaṭaṃ bhuvi

I had gone to the river, noble one, wishing to wash the clothes; and when I came back I saw the cart overturned on the ground."

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HV 50.20

तयोः कथयतोर् एवम् अब्रुवंस् तत्र दारकाः अनेन शिशुना यानम् एतत् पादेन पातितम् अस्माभिः संपतद्भिस् तु दृष्टम् एतद् यदृच्छया ॥ ह्व्_५०।१८ नन्दगोपस् तु तच् छ्रुत्वा विस्मयं परमं ययौ । प्रहृष्टश् चैव भीतश् च किम् एतद् इति चिन्तयन् । न च ते श्रद्दधुर् गोपाः सर्वे मानुषबुद्धयः । आश्चर्यम् इति ते सर्वे विस्मयोत्फुल्ललोचनाः स्वस्थाने शकटं चैव चक्रबन्धम् अकारयन् ॥ ह्व्_५०।१९ नन्दो ऽङ्कम् एनम् आरोप्य भूरेणुं परिगृह्य च । प्रदक्षिणं शिरः कुर्वन् मन्त्रम् एतज् जजाप ह । विष्णुस् ते पूर्वतः पातु रुद्रो रक्षतु दक्षिणम् । ब्रह्मा च पश्चिमं पायात् स्कन्दो रक्षत्व् अथोत्तरम् । उपरिष्टात् तथा सूर्यः पायाच् चाधश् च वासुकिः । पायाच् च त्वाम् अथो वत्स शिष्टाः काष्ठाः समीरणः । स्वस्तिं करोतु भगवान् पिनाकी वृषभध्वजः । गावो रक्षन्तु सर्वत्र भूमिः पातु सदाशिवः । एवम् उच्चार्य नन्दस् तु कृष्णं पस्पर्श सर्वशः । स एव मन्त्रो बालानां रक्षायै परिकीर्तितः । कस्यचित् त्व् अथ कालस्य सकुनीवेषधारिणी । धात्री कंसस्य भोजस्य पूतनेति परिश्रुता पूतना नाम शकुनी थोरा प्राणभयंकरी । आजगामार्धरात्रे वै पक्षौ क्रोधाद् विधुन्वती । तस्मै स्तनं दुर्जरवीर्यम् उल्बणं । घोराङ्कम् आदाय शिशोर् ददाव् अथ । गाढं कराभ्यां भगवान् प्रपीड्य । प्राणैः समं रोषसमन्वितो ऽपिबत् ॥ सा मुञ्च मुञ्च बालम् इति प्रभाषिणी । निष्पीड्यमानाखिलजीवमर्मणि । विवृत्य नेत्रे चरणौ भुजौ मुहुर् । विक्लिन्नगात्रा क्षिपती रुरोद ह ॥ तस्याः स्वनेनातिगभीररंहसा । साद्रिर् मही द्यौश् च चचाल सग्रहा । रसा दिशश् च प्रतिनेदिरे जनाः । पेतुः क्षितौ वज्रनिपातशङ्कया ॥ निशाचरीत्थं व्यथितस्तना व्यसुर् । विस्तार्य केशांश् चरणौ भुजाव् अपि । प्रसार्य गोष्ठे निजरूपम् आश्रिता । वज्राहतो वृत्र इवापतन् नृप ॥ पतमानो ऽपि तद्देहस् त्रिगव्यूत्यन्तरद्रुमान् । चूर्णयाम् आस राजेन्द्र महद् आसीत् तद् अद्भुतम् ॥ ईषामात्रोग्रदंष्ट्रास्यं गिरिकन्दरनासिकम् । गण्डशैलस्तनं रौद्रं प्रकीर्णारुणमूर्धजम् । अन्धकूपगभीराक्षं पुलिनारोहभीषणम् । बद्धसेतुभुजोर्वङ्घ्रि शून्यतोयह्रदोदरम् । बालं च तस्या उरसि क्रीडन्तम् अकुतोभयम् । गोप्यस् तूर्णं समभ्येत्य जगृहुर् जातसंभ्रमाः ॥ यशोदारोहिणीभ्यां ताः समं बालस्य सर्वतः । रक्षाम् विदधिरे सम्यग् गोपुच्छभ्रमणादिभिः ॥ गोमूत्रेण स्नापयित्वा पुनर् गोरजसार्भकम् । रक्षां चक्रुश् च शकृता द्वादशाङ्गेषु नामभिः । ततो ऽर्धरात्रसमये शकुनिः प्रत्यदृश्यत

tayoḥ kathayator evam abruvaṃs tatra dārakāḥ anena śiśunā yānam etat pādena pātitam asmābhiḥ saṃpatadbhis tu dṛṣṭam etad yadṛcchayā // HV_50.18 nandagopas tu tac chrutvā vismayaṃ paramaṃ yayau | prahṛṣṭaś caiva bhītaś ca kim etad iti cintayan | na ca te śraddadhur gopāḥ sarve mānuṣabuddhayaḥ | āścaryam iti te sarve vismayotphullalocanāḥ svasthāne śakaṭaṃ caiva cakrabandham akārayan // HV_50.19 nando 'ṅkam enam āropya bhūreṇuṃ parigṛhya ca | pradakṣiṇaṃ śiraḥ kurvan mantram etaj jajāpa ha | viṣṇus te pūrvataḥ pātu rudro rakṣatu dakṣiṇam | brahmā ca paścimaṃ pāyāt skando rakṣatv athottaram | upariṣṭāt tathā sūryaḥ pāyāc cādhaś ca vāsukiḥ | pāyāc ca tvām atho vatsa śiṣṭāḥ kāṣṭhāḥ samīraṇaḥ | svastiṃ karotu bhagavān pinākī vṛṣabhadhvajaḥ | gāvo rakṣantu sarvatra bhūmiḥ pātu sadāśivaḥ | evam uccārya nandas tu kṛṣṇaṃ pasparśa sarvaśaḥ | sa eva mantro bālānāṃ rakṣāyai parikīrtitaḥ | kasyacit tv atha kālasya sakunīveṣadhāriṇī | dhātrī kaṃsasya bhojasya pūtaneti pariśrutā pūtanā nāma śakunī thorā prāṇabhayaṃkarī | ājagāmārdharātre vai pakṣau krodhād vidhunvatī | tasmai stanaṃ durjaravīryam ulbaṇaṃ | ghorāṅkam ādāya śiśor dadāv atha | gāḍhaṃ karābhyāṃ bhagavān prapīḍya | prāṇaiḥ samaṃ roṣasamanvito 'pibat || sā muñca muñca bālam iti prabhāṣiṇī | niṣpīḍyamānākhilajīvamarmaṇi | vivṛtya netre caraṇau bhujau muhur | viklinnagātrā kṣipatī ruroda ha || tasyāḥ svanenātigabhīraraṃhasā | sādrir mahī dyauś ca cacāla sagrahā | rasā diśaś ca pratinedire janāḥ | petuḥ kṣitau vajranipātaśaṅkayā || niśācarītthaṃ vyathitastanā vyasur | vistārya keśāṃś caraṇau bhujāv api | prasārya goṣṭhe nijarūpam āśritā | vajrāhato vṛtra ivāpatan nṛpa || patamāno 'pi taddehas trigavyūtyantaradrumān | cūrṇayām āsa rājendra mahad āsīt tad adbhutam || īṣāmātrogradaṃṣṭrāsyaṃ girikandaranāsikam | gaṇḍaśailastanaṃ raudraṃ prakīrṇāruṇamūrdhajam | andhakūpagabhīrākṣaṃ pulinārohabhīṣaṇam | baddhasetubhujorvaṅghri śūnyatoyahradodaram | bālaṃ ca tasyā urasi krīḍantam akutobhayam | gopyas tūrṇaṃ samabhyetya jagṛhur jātasaṃbhramāḥ || yaśodārohiṇībhyāṃ tāḥ samaṃ bālasya sarvataḥ | rakṣām vidadhire samyag gopucchabhramaṇādibhiḥ || gomūtreṇa snāpayitvā punar gorajasārbhakam | rakṣāṃ cakruś ca śakṛtā dvādaśāṅgeṣu nāmabhiḥ | tato 'rdharātrasamaye śakuniḥ pratyadṛśyata

While the two of them were talking thus, the children there said: "This vehicle was knocked over by this infant with his foot; we saw it by chance as we were running up together." (50.18) But Nandagopa, hearing that, fell into the greatest astonishment, both delighted and afraid, wondering "What is this?" And the cowherds did not believe it, all of them having human understanding; all of them, their eyes wide open with amazement, saying "A marvel!", had the cart set in its own place and its wheels fastened. (50.19) Nanda, lifting him onto his lap and taking up dust of the earth, making his head (go) rightward (in circumambulation), muttered this spell: "May Viṣṇu guard you on the east, may Rudra protect the south, may Brahmā guard the west, and may Skanda protect the north; so too may the Sun guard above and Vāsuki below; and, child, may the Wind guard you in the remaining quarters. May the blessed Pinākin, whose banner is the bull, make you well; may the cows protect you everywhere; may the earth, ever-auspicious, guard you." Having uttered this, Nanda touched Kṛṣṇa all over. That same spell is declared to be for the protection of children. Then after some time, one who took the guise of a bird, the nurse of Kaṃsa the Bhoja, well known as Pūtanā — a great bird named Pūtanā, terrifying to life — came at midnight, shaking her wings in anger. Then, taking the infant into her dreadful lap, she gave him her breast, monstrous and of hardly digestible potency; and the Lord, pressing it hard with both hands, filled with rage, drank it along with her life-breaths. She, crying out "Let go, let go of the child!", as every vital point of her life was being crushed, with eyes staring wide, again and again (flinging) her feet and arms, her body drenched, thrashing about, wailed. At the sound of her, of exceedingly deep force, the earth with its mountains and the sky with its planets shook; the netherworld and the quarters resounded; people fell to the ground in the fear that a thunderbolt had struck. Thus the night-wanderer, her breast wracked, lifeless, spreading out her hair and stretching out her feet and arms too, took on her own form in the cow-pen and fell, O king, like Vṛtra struck by the thunderbolt. Even as it fell, her body pulverized the trees within a space of three gavyūtis, O lord of kings; that was a great marvel. Her mouth had fierce tusks the size of cart-poles, her nostrils were mountain caverns, her breasts boulders, dreadful, her tawny hair scattered, her eyes deep as blind wells, terrifying with buttock-slopes like sandbanks, her arms and thighs and legs like built-up causeways, her belly a lake emptied of water — and the child, playing on her breast, fearing nothing from any side: the cowherd women, hurrying up at once, seized him in great agitation. Together with Yaśodā and Rohiṇī, they duly performed protection for the child on all sides, by whirling a cow's tail about him and so forth. Having bathed the little one in cow's urine, and again with cow-dust, they made a protection with cow-dung on his twelve limbs, with the (holy) names. Then, at the hour of midnight, a bird appeared.

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HV 50.21

व्याघ्रगम्भीरनिर्घोषा व्याहरन्ती पुनः पुनः निलिल्ये शकटाक्षे सा प्रस्नवोत्पीडवर्षिणी

vyāghragambhīranirghoṣā vyāharantī punaḥ punaḥ nililye śakaṭākṣe sā prasnavotpīḍavarṣiṇī

With a deep roar like a tiger's, crying out again and again, she settled at the axle-hole of the cart, raining down a gushing flow of milk.

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HV 50.23

ददौ स्तनं च कृष्णाय तत्र सुप्तजने निशि तस्याः स्तनं पपौ कृष्णः प्राणैः सह ननाद च ॥ ह्व्_५०।२२ स्तन्यं तद्विषसंमिश्रं रस्यम् आसीज् जगद्गुरोः । पतन्तीं तां तु संदृश्य शकुनीं भयविक्लवाम् । प्रयाणे शीघ्रचपलां वाशमानां च विस्वरम् । पादाङ्गुष्टेन तां कृष्णश् चक्राक्रान्ताम् अकारयत् । चक्राक्रान्ता तु शकुनी पपात च ममार च । ननाद च महानादं पुनः पुनर् असौ हरिः । तेन शब्देन वित्रस्तास् ततो बुबुधिरे जनाः स नन्दगोपो गोपाश् च यशोदा च सुविक्लवा

dadau stanaṃ ca kṛṣṇāya tatra suptajane niśi tasyāḥ stanaṃ papau kṛṣṇaḥ prāṇaiḥ saha nanāda ca // HV_50.22 stanyaṃ tadviṣasaṃmiśraṃ rasyam āsīj jagadguroḥ | patantīṃ tāṃ tu saṃdṛśya śakunīṃ bhayaviklavām | prayāṇe śīghracapalāṃ vāśamānāṃ ca visvaram | pādāṅguṣṭena tāṃ kṛṣṇaś cakrākrāntām akārayat | cakrākrāntā tu śakunī papāta ca mamāra ca | nanāda ca mahānādaṃ punaḥ punar asau hariḥ | tena śabdena vitrastās tato bubudhire janāḥ sa nandagopo gopāś ca yaśodā ca suviklavā

And there in the night, when the people were asleep, she gave her breast to Kṛṣṇa; Kṛṣṇa sucked her breast along with her life-breaths, and she screamed. (50.22) That breast-milk, mingled with poison, was sweet to the Guru of the world. Seeing that bird falling, undone by fear, in her flight swift and unsteady and shrieking discordantly, Kṛṣṇa with his big toe made her overpowered by the wheel; overpowered by the wheel the bird fell and died. And Hari roared a great roar again and again. Terrified by that sound, the people then woke up — Nandagopa and the cowherds and Yaśodā, greatly distressed.

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HV 50.24

ते ताम् अपश्यन् पतितां विसंज्ञां विपयोधराम् शकुनिं निहतां भूमौ वज्रेणेव विदारिताम्

te tām apaśyan patitāṃ visaṃjñāṃ vipayodharām śakuniṃ nihatāṃ bhūmau vajreṇeva vidāritām

They saw her fallen, senseless, her breast destroyed — the bird slain upon the ground, torn apart as if by a thunderbolt.

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HV 50.26

इदं किं न्व् इति संत्रस्ताः कस्येदं कर्म चेति च नन्दगोपं पुरस्कृत्य गोपास् तं पर्यवारयन् ॥ ह्व्_५०।२५ नाध्यगच्छन्त च तदा हेतुं तत्र कदाचन । आश्चर्यम् आश्चर्यम् इति ब्रुवन्तो ऽनुययुर् गृहान् । गतेषु तेषु गोपेषु विस्मितेषु यथागृहम् यशोदां नन्दगोपस् तु पप्रच्छागतसंभ्रमः

idaṃ kiṃ nv iti saṃtrastāḥ kasyedaṃ karma ceti ca nandagopaṃ puraskṛtya gopās taṃ paryavārayan // HV_50.25 nādhyagacchanta ca tadā hetuṃ tatra kadācana | āścaryam āścaryam iti bruvanto 'nuyayur gṛhān | gateṣu teṣu gopeṣu vismiteṣu yathāgṛham yaśodāṃ nandagopas tu papracchāgatasaṃbhramaḥ

Terrified, (saying) "What is this?" and "Whose deed is this?", the cowherds, putting Nandagopa in front, surrounded him. (50.25) And they could find no cause for it at all then; saying "A marvel, a marvel!" they went off to their houses. When those cowherds had gone, astonished, each to his own house, Nandagopa, seized with agitation, questioned Yaśodā.

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HV 50.27

को ऽयं विधिर् न जानामि विस्मयो मे महान् अयम् पुत्रस्य मे भयं भीरु भीरुत्वं समुपागतम्

ko 'yaṃ vidhir na jānāmi vismayo me mahān ayam putrasya me bhayaṃ bhīru bhīrutvaṃ samupāgatam

"What ordinance is this? I do not understand; this astonishment of mine is great. Fear for my son, timid one, and timidity have come upon me."

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HV 50.28

यशोदा त्व् अब्रवीद् भीता नार्य जानामि किं न्व् इदम् दारकेण सहानेन सुप्ता शब्देन बोधिता

yaśodā tv abravīd bhītā nārya jānāmi kiṃ nv idam dārakeṇa sahānena suptā śabdena bodhitā

But Yaśodā, frightened, said: "Noble one, I do not know what this is. I was asleep with this child, and was woken by the noise."

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HV 50.29

यशोदायाम् अजानन्त्यां नन्दगोपः सबान्धवः कंसाद् भयं चकारोग्रं विस्मयं च जगाम ह

yaśodāyām ajānantyāṃ nandagopaḥ sabāndhavaḥ kaṃsād bhayaṃ cakārograṃ vismayaṃ ca jagāma ha

Yaśodā being ignorant (of it), Nandagopa with his kinsmen conceived a fierce fear of Kaṃsa, and fell into amazement.

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