Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana Book 10 Chapter 7:29-37

Book 10: Seventh Chapter (First Half)

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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 7: Verses 29-37

The crying women assembled there saw the terrible demon fallen from the skies on a slab, with all his limbs shattered, like the city[1](built by the demon Maya and) cleft by the arrow of Lord Rudra. Nay, astonished to find Sri Krsna dangling on his breast, they picked up and restored Him to His mother. The cowherdesses and cowherds headed by Nanda, so the tradition goes, experienced excessive joy to get back the Babe, sound of body, though taken away by the ogre through the air, and extricated from the jaws of Death (as it were). Oh, what a joy! It is extremely wonderful that, though brought to an end by the ogre, this boy has returned safe! The bloody and wicked fellow has been destroyed by his own sin and a pious soul is completely rid of fear by virtue of his even-mindedness. What austerities, worship of Lord Visnu (who is above sense-perception), act of pious liberality[2] (Purta) and sacrificial performance etc.
(Isla), act of charity or act of benevolence to living beings has been performed by us due to which the boy, though (virtually) dead, has luckily enough appeared (in our midst) again, reviving (us,) his kinsfolk? Amazed to see many (more) wonders (of this kind) at Brhadvana (Gokula), Nanda, the cowherd chief, esteemed the prophecy of Vasudeva again and again. One day; taking up the Babe and placing Him in her lap, the blessed Yasoda, overwhelmed with affection, made Him suck her breast overflowing with milk. Caressing the mouth (lips), lit up with a charming smile, of the Babe, who had almost finished sucking, 0 king, the aforesaid mother saw in His mouth while He was yawning the following, viz., the sky, the horizon, the host of luminaries, the (four) quarters, the sun, the moon, fire, the air and the oceans, the broad divisions of the globe, mountains, the rivers (flowing from them), forests and all created beings, stationary as well as moving. Seized with a tremor to perceive the universe vividly all of a sudden, 0 Pariksit, (in the mouth of the Babe), and fully closing her eyes, Yasoda (whose eyes resembled those of a fawn) stood greatly amazed.

Thus ends the seventh discourse entitled The deliverance of Trnavarta in the great and glorious Bhagavata-Purana , otherwise known as the Paramahamsa-Samhita.
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References

  1. Vide VII. x.54-59.
  2. The word 'Purta' has been defined by Manu in the following couplet:-

    वापीकूपडागादि देवतायतनानि च। अन्न प्रदानमाराम: पूर्तमित्यभिधीयते॥

    (Manusmrti, IV. 226) " Digging wells, big and small, tanks etc., construction of temples, giving, away foodgrains, laying out garden-these are called by the name of Purta." The word 'Ista' again, has been defined by Atri as below:-

    अग्निहोत्रं तप: सत्यं वेदानां चैव पालनम्। आतिथ्यं वैश्वदेवश्च इष्टमित्यभिधीयते॥

    Pouring oblations into the sacred fire, practising austerities, truthfulness and also preserving the Vedas by committing them to memory, hospitality, performing the rite called Vaiswadeva-this is called by the name of Ista."