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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 11]
PURPORT
It was the practice of the inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi to compose poetry about the incidents that occurred in the forest when Kṛṣṇa performed His different activities of killing the  asuras . They would compose all the stories in poetry or have this done by professional poets, and then they would sing about these incidents. Thus it is written here that the boys sang very loudly.
TEXT 54
अत्वा तद् विसिता गोपा गोप्यश्चातिप्रियादृताः । प्रेत्यागतमिवोत्सुक्यादैक्षन्त तृषितेक्षणाः ॥५४॥
śrutvā tad vismitā gopā gopyaś cātipriyādṛtāḥ pretyāgatam ivotsukyād aikṣanta tṛṣitekṣaṇāḥ
śrutvā —after hearing;  tat —these incidents;  vismitāḥ —being struck with wonder;  gopāḥ —the cowherd men;  gopyaḥ ca —and their respective wives;  ati-priya-ādṛtāḥ —received the news with great transcendental pleasure;  pretya āgatam iva —thought that it was as if the boys had returned from death;  utsukyāt —with great eagerness;  aikṣanta —began to look upon the boys;  tṛṣita-īkṣaṇāḥ —with full satisfaction, they did not want to turn their eyes from Kṛṣṇa and the boys.
TRANSLATION
When the cowherd men and women heard about the killing of Bakāsura in the forest, they were very much astonished. Upon seeing Kṛṣṇa and hearing the story, they received Kṛṣṇa very eagerly, thinking that Kṛṣṇa and the other boys had returned from the mouth of death. Thus they looked upon Kṛṣṇa and the boys with silent eyes, not wanting to turn their eyes aside now that the boys were safe.
PURPORT
Because of intense love for Kṛṣṇa, the cowherd men and women simply remained silent, thinking of how Kṛṣṇa and the boys had been