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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 3]
devakyāḥ —of Devakī;  śayane —on the bed;  nyasya —placing;  vasudevaḥ —Vasudeva;  atha —thus;  dārikām —the female child;  pratimucya —binding himself again;  padoḥ loham —iron shackles on the two legs;  āste —remained;  pūrva-vat —like before;  āvṛtaḥ —bound.
TRANSLATION
Vasudeva placed the female child on the bed of Devakī, bound his legs with the iron shackles, and thus remained there as before.
TEXT 53
यशोदा नन्दपती च जातं परमबुध्यत । न तल्लिङ्गं परिश्रान्ता निद्रयापगतस्मृतिः ॥५३॥
yaśodā nanda-patnī ca jātam param abudhyata na tal-liṅgam pariśrāntā nidrayāpagata-smṛtiḥ
yaśodā —Yaśodā, Kṛṣṇa's mother in Gokula;  nanda-patnī —the wife of Nanda Mahārāja;  ca —also;  jātam —a child was born;  param —the Supreme Person;  abudhyata —could understand;  na —not;  tat-liṅgam —whether the child was male or female;  pariśrāntā —because of too much labor;  nidrayā —when overwhelmed with sleep;  apagata-smṛtiḥ —having lost consciousness.
TRANSLATION
Exhausted by the labor of childbirth, Yaśodā was overwhelmed with sleep and unable to understand what kind of child had been born to her.
PURPORT
Nanda Mahārāja and Vasudeva were intimate friends, and so were their wives, Yaśodā and Devakī. Although their names were different, they were practically nondifferent personalities. The only difference is that Devakī was able to understand that the Supreme Personality of God-