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OF CULTURE
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
SL
 
Ignorant of His power, she desired to

bind Him with a rope, one for whom

there was not in or out or front or back.
 
GOVERNMENT
 
JA
 

 
गोपिकोलूखले दाम्ना बबन्ध प्राकृतं यथा ।
 

तद्दाम बध्यमानस्य स्वाभकस्य कृतागसः ।
 

व्यङ्गलोनमभूत्तेन सन्दघेधेऽन्यच्च गोपिका ॥
 

The poor cowherd-woman bound Him

in the mortar with the rope, as she would

an ordinary person. That rope was two

inches too short for her guilty son who

was to be bound. Hence, she joined

another to it.
 

 
तदपि द्वयङ्गलं न्यूनं यद्यदादत्त बन्धनम् ।

स्वमातुरिस्वस्स्विन्नगात्राया विस्रस्तकबरस्रजः।

दृष्ट्वा परिश्रमं कृष्णः कृपयाऽऽसीत्स्वबन्धने ॥
 

Whatever rope she brought, happened

to be two inches short. Seeing the

exhaustion of His mother, with her body

perspiring and her locks and flowers

dishevelled, Krishna, out of pity, allowed

Himself to be bound.