Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 9:51-60

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Sri Nanda-putrotsava

The Festival of Sri Nanda’s son

Chapter 9: Verse 51-60

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 51.O child, thus I have told the stories of Lord Balarama’s birth, Nanda and Yasoda’s austerities and Rohini’s activities. 52.Now please hear the beautiful story of the celebration for Nanda’s son, a story that brings happiness and liberation, a story that stops birth, death, and old age. 53.Lord Krsna’s auspicious pastimes are the life of the devotees. They destroy all that is inauspicious and they bring devotional service to the Lord. 54.Vasudeva placed Lord Krsna in Nanda’s home, and then happily took Nanda’s daughter to his own home. 55.O sage, I have already described her activities. Now please hear of Lord Krsna’s blissful and auspicious pastimes in Gokula. 56.After Vasudeva left for his own home, Nanda and Yasoda woke up in the auspicious and glorious maternity room. 57.They gazed at their very handsome son glorious like a new monsoon cloud, naked, resting on the ground and looking up at the ceiling,... 58. ...His face an autumn moon, His eyes dark lotus flowers, crying and laughing, His transcendental form resting in the dust,... 59. ...and His two hands leaving impressions of a club and lotus in the dust. Nanda and his wife gazed at Krsna, and Krsna gazed at them. 60.The midwife bathed the infant boy with cool water and cut the umbilical cord. The gopis happily called out, “All glories!”