Text 19]
The Killing of the Demon Trṇāvarta
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stood that Krṣṇa was aware of the coming of Trṇāvartāsura, who would take Him far away from His mother. Krṣṇa knew that when Trṇāvarta came and took Him away from His mother's lap, mother Yaśodā would be greatly bereaved. He did not want His mother to suffer any difficulty from the demon. Therefore, because He is the source of everything ( jan-mādy asya yataḥ ), He assumed the heaviness of the entire universe. The child was on the lap of Yaśodā, who was therefore in possession of everything in the world, but when the child assumed such heaviness, she had to put Him down in order to give Trṇāvartāsura an opportunity to take Him away and play with Him for some time before the child returned to the lap of His mother.
TEXT 19
भूमौ निधाय तं गोपी विस्मिता भारपीडिता । महापुरुषमादध्यौ जगतामास कर्मसु ॥१९॥
bhūmau nidhāya taṁ gopī vismitā bhāra-pīḍitā mahā-puruṣam ādadhyau jagatām āsa karmasu
bhūmau —on the ground;  nidhāya —placing;  taṁ —the child;  gopī —mother Yaśodā;  vismitā —being astonished;  bhāra-pīḍitā —being aggrieved by the weight of the child;  mahā-puruṣam —Lord Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa;  ādadhyau —took shelter of;  jagatām —as if the weight of the whole world;  āsa —engaged herself;  karmasu —in other household affairs.
TRANSLATION
Feeling the child to be as heavy as the entire universe and therefore being anxious, thinking that perhaps the child was being attacked by some other ghost or demon, the astonished mother Yaśodā put the child down on the ground and began to think of Nārāyaṇa. Foreseeing disturbances, she called for the brāhmaṇas to counteract this heaviness, and then she engaged in her other household affairs. She had no alternative than to remember the lotus feet of Nārāyaṇa, for she could not understand that Krṣṇa was the original source of everything.