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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 9]
bind, for all the ropes together were still too short. Naturally mother Yaśodā and her  gopī  friends thought, “How is this possible?” Seeing this funny affair, all of them were smiling. The first rope was short by a measurement the width of two fingers, and after the second rope was added, it was still two fingers too short. If the shortness of all the ropes were added together, it must have amounted to the width of hundreds of fingers. Certainly this was astonishing. This was another exhibition of Kṛṣṇa’s inconceivable potency to His mother and His mother’s friends.
TEXT 18
स्वमातुः स्विन्नगात्राया विस्रस्तकवरस्रजः ।
दृष्ट्वा परिश्रमं कृष्णः कृपयासीत् स्वबन्धने ॥१८॥
sva-mātuḥ svinna-gātrāyā visrasta-kabara-srajaḥ dṛṣṭvā pariśramaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ kṛpayāsīt sva-bandhane
sva-mātuḥ —of His own mother (Kṛṣṇa’s mother, Yaśodādevī);  svinna-gātrāyāḥ —when Kṛṣṇa saw His mother perspiring all over because of unnecessary labor;  visrasta —were falling down;  kabara —from her hair;  srajaḥ —of whom the flowers;  dṛṣṭvā —by seeing the condition of His mother;  pariśramaṁ —He could understand that she was now overworked and feeling fatigued;  kṛṣṇaḥ —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  kṛpayā —by His causeless mercy upon His devotee and mother;  āsīt —agreed;  sva-bandhane —in binding Him.
TRANSLATION
Because of mother Yaśodā’s hard labor, her whole body became covered with perspiration, and the flowers and comb were falling from her hair. When child Kṛṣṇa saw His mother thus fatigued, He became merciful to her and agreed to be bound.
PURPORT
When mother Yaśodā and the other ladies finally saw that Kṛṣṇa, although decorated with many bangles and other jeweled ornaments, could