Bhagavata Condensed in the Poetʼs Own Words /300

M
 
RY OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT O
 
● भारत वत्सरका
 
T OF
 
KRISHNA AVATARA
 
वत्सवधः -
KILLING OF VATSA
 
FECHAL PRADEDAMA
 

 
कदाचिद्यमुनातीरे वत्सांश्चारयतोरस्वकैः

वयस्यैः कृष्णबलयोर्जिघांसुर्दैत्य आगमत् ॥
 

Once, as Krishna and Rama, along with

their friends, were tending the calves on

the banks of the Yamuna, a demon came

desiring to kill them.
 

 
तं वत्सरूपिणं वीक्ष्य वत्सयूथगतं हरिः ।

दर्शयन्बलदेवाय शनैर्मुग्ध इवासदत् ॥
 

ST
 
Seeing that the demon had taken the

form of a calf and had entered the flock,

Lord Hari showed him to Balarama and

slowly approached him as if He knew

nothing.
 

 
गृहीत्वाऽपरपादाभ्यां सह लाङङ्गूलमच्युतः ।

भ्रामयित्वा कपित्थाग्ने प्राहिणोद्गत जीवितम् ।

स कपित्थैर्महाकायः पात्यमानैः पपात ह ॥