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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 6]
PURPORT
Demons are always busy creating disturbances and killing. But the child lying on the bed in the house of Nanda Mahārāja was meant to kill many demons.
TEXT 8
विबुध्य तां बालकमारिकाग्रहं
चराचरात्मा स निमीलितेक्षणः ।
अनन्तमारोपयदङ्कमन्तकं
यथोरगं सुप्तमबुद्धिरज्जुधीः ॥ ८ ॥
vibudhya tām bālaka-mārikā-graham carācarātmā sa nimilitekṣaṇaḥ anantam āropayad aṅkam antakam yathoragam suptam abuddhi-rajju-dhīḥ
vibudhya—understanding; tām—her (Pūtanā); bālaka-mārikā-graham—a witch very expert in killing small babies; cara-acara-ātmā—Kṛṣṇa, the all-pervading Supersoul; saḥ—He; nimilita-īkṣaṇaḥ—closed His eyes; anantam—the Unlimited; āropayat—she placed; aṅkam—on her lap; antakam—for her own annihilation; yathā—as; uragam—a snake; suptam—while sleeping; abuddhi—a person who has no intelligence; rajju-dhīḥ—one who thinks a snake to be a rope.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the all-pervading Supersoul, lying on the bed, understood that Pūtanā, a witch who was expert in killing small children, had come to kill Him. Therefore, as if afraid of her, Kṛṣṇa closed His eyes. Thus Pūtanā took upon her lap Him who was to be her own annihilation, just as an unintelligent person places a sleeping snake on his lap, thinking the snake to be a rope.
PURPORT
In this verse there are two perplexities. When Kṛṣṇa saw that Pūtanā had come to kill Him, He thought that since this woman was present with