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"The Story of the Fortunate One"

by KRISHNA -DVAIPÂYANA VYÂSA

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Pictures Canto 10 part 1 - page 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Chapter 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12

 

Chapter 7: Krishna Kicks the Cart, Defeats Trinâvarta
and Shows Yas'odâ the Universe

(8) All the ladies and men of Vraja with Yas'odâ and Nanda first who had assembled for the Utthâna-ceremony,
witnessing that wondrous event marveled on how the cart by itself indeed could have been damaged so badly.


 (28) With Him grasping him by the throat  the eyes of the demon popped out while he
choked and lifeless together with the child fell to the ground.
 


Chapter 8: The Name Ceremony, His Pranks and
Again the Universe Within His Mouth

(11) S'rî S'uka said: 'Upon this urgent request the man of learning performed for the two boys
in secret seclusion the name-giving ceremony for which he had come.


(30) Hung out of reach He devises a way piling up things or turning over a mortar and knows His way to the contents making a hole in the hanging pot. He knows His way around in a dark room with enough light to see from the shining jewels on His body and awaits the time the gopîs are busy with their household affairs!


(40) 'Is this all a dream, a divine phantasmagoria or maybe a delusion of my own intelligence or
would otherwise that what I so see be some yogic feat natural to my child?

 

Chapter 9: Mother Yas'odâ Binds Lord Krishna

(8) Though the chasing mother, in her great speed with flowers fallen from her hair,
heavy-breasted to her thin waist had to slow down, she
finally managed to capture Him.



(13-14) There is no inside nor an outside to Him,  nor a beginning or an end. He, as the end as well as the beginning, the internal as well as the external of the entire creation, is the One Totality of that creation. Taking Him, the Unmanifest in the form of a mortal being, for her own son she bound Him to a mortar like one does with a normal child.



Chapter 10: The Deliverance of the Sons of Kuvera

(6) Seeing him their adherents were ashamed and covered  afraid of being cursed quickly with their garments the
nakedness of their bodies, but the two trustees [Shiva-guhyakas] who were also naked didn't.




(28) Right there then out of the two trees resplendently beautiful, illuminating all directions, appeared two persons like fire personified who offered Krishna with folded hands, head down, their obeisances while they before the Lord of the Whole World completely purified uttered the following:



Chapter 11: A New Residence, the Fruitvendor and
Vatsâsura and Bakâsura Defeated

(11) What He had to offer had fallen from the palms of His hands, but the fruit lady filled them [nevertheless] with fruits.
In exchange the entire basket of fruits
was filled with gold and jewels.


(51) He with Bakâsura trying again caught that friend of Kamsa with His arms by the beak which He as the Master of the Truthful
in service of the denizens of heaven, with the boys watching, as easily tore apart as one splits a blade of grass.


Chapter 12: The Killing of the Demon Aghâsura

(3) Krishna along with the countless calves He had assembled of His own,
then, here and there [in the forest], enjoyed engaging in their boyish games.


(27) Krishna, the source of fearlessness for each, seeing them was amazed and compassionately felt sorry the way things were turning out while they, who had no one but Him, now helplessly had ran away from His control and were as straws in the fire of the belly of Aghâsura, that messenger of death personified.



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