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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 6: Verses 25-40
Prsnigarbha (Pradyumna), understanding and Sankarsana (the all-destroying Lord), your Ahankara (ego). May Govinda (who sports in the senses) protect you while you are at play, Madhava, while lying down; Vaikuntha, while walking; the Lord of Sri, while seated; and the Enjoyer of sacrifices, inspiring terror in all evil spirits, while you are dining (Malevolent spirits such as) Dakinis, Yatudhanis and Kusmandas evilspirits that seize their victims taking the form of babes, Bhutas, Pretas and Pisacas, Yaksas, Raksasas and Vinayakas, Kotara, Revati, Jyestha, Putana, (the sixteen) Matrkas and others (such as Caraki and Jwalamukha), Unmadas (evil spirits causing insanity) and Apasmaras (those inducing apoplexy), that actually torment the body and the Indriyas and interfere with the vital functions, those responsible for evil portents of a grave nature seen in dreams and those that seize the aged as well as youngsters (alike)-terrified at the mention of the names of Lord Visnu, may all these (evil spirits) die out.
Sri Suka went on : Giving suck to her Son, whose safety had thus been ensured by cowherd women, bound (to him) by (ties of) affection, the mother put Him to sleep. Meanwhile the (party of) cowherds headed by Nanda came back to (the outskirts of) Vraja from Mathura, and were greatly astonished to see the (colossal) body of Putana. (They said to one another,) "Oh, surely a seer has been really born in the person of Vasudeva or he must have been a master of Yoga (in his previous incarnation); for that very calamity has actually been perceived, of which Anakadundubhi spoke (to us)."Having hacked that body with axes and cast it piecemeal at a distance, those inhabitants of Vraja (that had been entrusted with the protection of Gokula) burnt it to ashes after it had been piled over with logs of wood. Out of that body, while it was being cremated, arose (a column of) smoke emitting the fragrance of aloe-wood, the sin attaching to it having been completely wiped out the moment its life was sucked out (through the breasts) by Sri Krsna.
(Lo!) Putana, a blood-sucking ogress given to the destruction of infants in the world and giving suck to Sri Hari even with the (deprecable) motive of killing Him, attained the destiny of saints! How much more, then, should one deserve such a state, who offers one's most beloved something with (utmost) reverence and devotion to Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Spirit, as did His affectionate mothers[1] and cows full of motherly affection. Even the said ogress (Putana), whose breast the Lord sucked covering her body with His feet-feet which remain enshrined in the heart of His devotees and are worthy of being adored even by Brahma, Siva and others (who are adored by the world), ascended to heaven (Vaikuntha), a destiny worthy of His mothers (Devaki and Yasoda)! What wonder, then, that the cows and mothers, the milk of whose breasts was (lovingly) sucked by Lord Sri Krsna, should attain that destiny? Rebirth, which results from ignorance, could never be possible, 0 Pariksit, in the case of those (cows and mothers) that incessantly looked upon Sri Krsna as their as son, nay, whose milk, oozing out of parental affection, the (said) divine son of Devaki, the Bestower of Liberation and all other blessings, sucked to His heart's content.
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