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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 11]
dorbhyām —with His arms;  bakam —Bakāsura;  kaṁsa-sakham —who was the friend and associate of Kaṁsa;  satām patiḥ —Lord Kṛṣṇa, the master of the Vaiṣṇavas;  paśyatsu —while observing;  bāleṣu —all the cowherd boys;  dadāra —bifurcated;  līlayā —very easily;  mudā-āvahaḥ —this action was very much pleasing;  vīraṇa-vat —like the grass called  vīraṇa  (as it is bifurcated);  divaukasām —to all the denizens of heaven.
TRANSLATION
When Kṛṣṇa, the leader of the Vaiṣṇavas, saw that the demon Bakāsura, the friend of Kaṁsa, was endeavoring to attack Him, with His arms He captured the demon by the two halves of the beak, and in the presence of all the cowherd boys Kṛṣṇa very easily bifurcated Him, as a child splits a blade of  vīraṇa  grass. By thus killing the demon, Kṛṣṇa very much pleased the denizens of heaven.
TEXT 52
तदा बकारिं सुरलोकवासिनः 
    समाकिरन् नन्दनमल्लिकादिभिः । 
    समीडिरे चानकशङ्खसंस्तवै- 
    स्तद् वीक्ष्य गोपालसुता विसिस्सिरे ॥५२॥
tadā bakāriṁ sura-loka-vāsinaḥ 
    samākiran nandana-mallikādibhiḥ 
    samīḍire cānaka-śaṅkha-saṁstavais 
    tad vīkṣya gopāla-sutā visismire
tadā —at that time;  baka-arim —unto the enemy of Bakāsura;  sura-loka-vāsinaḥ —the celestial denizens of the higher planets;  samākiran —showered flowers;  nandana-mallikā-ādibhiḥ —with such flowers as  mallikā , which are grown in Nandana-kānana;  samīḍire —also congratulated Him;  ca —and;  ānaka-śaṅkha-saṁstavaiḥ —by celestial kettledrums and conchshells, accompanied with prayers;  tat vīkṣya —by seeing this;  gopāla-sutāḥ —the cowherd boys;  visismire —were struck with wonder.