Book 10: Seventh Chapter (First Half)
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. 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
- ↑ Vide VII. x.54-59.
- ↑ The word 'Purta' has been defined by Manu in the following couplet:-
वापीकूपडागादि देवतायतनानि च। अन्न प्रदानमाराम: पूर्तमित्यभिधीयते॥
अग्निहोत्रं तप: सत्यं वेदानां चैव पालनम्। आतिथ्यं वैश्वदेवश्च इष्टमित्यभिधीयते॥