Text 32]
The Killing of the Demon Pūtanā
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TRANSLATION
Meanwhile, all the cowherd men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, returned from Mathurā, and when they saw on the way the gigantic body of Pūtanā lying dead, they were struck with great wonder.
PURPORT
Nanda Mahārāja's wonder may be understood in various ways. First of all, the cowherd men had never before seen such a gigantic body in Vṛndāvana, and therefore they were struck with wonder. Then they began to consider where such a body had come from, whether it had dropped from the sky, or whether, by some mistake or by the power of some mystic  yoginī , they had come to some place other than Vṛndāvana. They could not actually guess what had happened, and therefore they were struck with wonder.
TEXT 32
नूनं बतर्षिः संजातो योगेशो वा समास सः । स एव दृष्टो ह्युत्पातो यदाहानकदुन्दुभिः ॥३२॥
nūnam batarṣiḥ sañjāto yogeśo vā samāsa saḥ sa eva dṛṣṭo hy utpāto yad āhānakadundubhiḥ
nūnam —certainly;  bata —O my friends;  ṛṣiḥ —a great saintly person;  sañjātaḥ —has become;  yoga-īśaḥ —a master of mystic power;  vā —or;  samāsa —has become;  saḥ —he (Vasudeva);  saḥ —that;  eva —indeed;  dṛṣṭaḥ —has been seen (by us);  hi —because;  utpātaḥ —kind of disturbance;  yat —that which;  āha —predicted;  ānakadundubhiḥ —Ānakadundubhi (another name of Vasudeva).
TRANSLATION
Nanda Mahārāja and the other gopas exclaimed: My dear friends, you must know that Ānakadundubhi, Vasudeva, has become a great saint or a master of mystic power. Otherwise how could he have foreseen this calamity and predicted it to us?