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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 7]
and therefore Mahārāja Parikṣit was very much interested in hearing about Him.
TEXT 4
श्रीशुक उवाच
कदाचिदौत्थानिककौतुकाप्लवे
जन्मर्क्षयोगे समवेतयोषिताम् ।
वादित्रगीतद्विजमन्त्रवाचकै-
श्वकार स्तनोरभिषेचनं सती ॥ ४ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca
kadācid autthānika-kautukāplave
janmarkṣa-yoge samaveta-yoṣitām
vāditra-gīta-dvija-mantra-vācakaiś
cakāra sūnor abhiṣecanam satī
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak (at the request of Mahārāja Parikṣit);  kadācit —at that time (when Kṛṣṇa was three months old);  autthānika-kautuka-āplave —when Kṛṣṇa was three or four months old and His body was developing. He attempted to turn around, and this pleasing occasion was observed with a festival and bathing ceremony;  janma-ṛkṣa-yoge —at that time, there was also a conjunction of the moon with the auspicious constellation Rohiṇī;  samaveta-yoṣitām —(the ceremony was observed) among the assembled women, a ceremony of mothers;  vāditra-gīta —different varieties of music and singing;  dvija-mantra-vācakaiḥ —with chanting of Vedic hymns by qualified  brāhmaṇas ;  cakāra —executed;  sūnoḥ —of her son;  abhiṣecanam —the bathing ceremony;  satī —mother Yaśodā.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When mother Yaśodā's baby was slanting His body to attempt to rise and turn around, this attempt was observed by a Vedic ceremony. In such a ceremony, called utthāna, which is performed when a child is due to leave the house for the first time, the child is properly bathed. Just after Kṛṣṇa turned three months old, mother Yaśodā celebrated this ceremony with