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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 12]
effulgence of Kṛṣṇa, but because the Supreme Personality of Godhead entered the body of Aghāsura, by His touch this demon got the opportunity to merge into the existence of the Brahman effulgence and thus attain  sāyujya-mukti .
When this pastime was performed, Kṛṣṇa was only five years old. One year later, when He was six years old and He stepped into the  paugaṇḍa  age, this pastime was disclosed to the inhabitants of Vraja. Parīkṣit Mahārāja inquired, “Why is it that this pastime was disclosed only after one year and yet the inhabitants of Vraja thought that it had been performed that very day?” With this question, the Twelfth Chapter ends.
TEXT 1
श्रीशुक्र उवाच
क्वचिद् वनाशाय मनो दधद् व्रजात्
प्रातः समुत्थाय वयस्यवत्सपान् ।
प्रबोधयञ्छुङ्गरवेण
चारुणा
विनिर्गतो वत्सपुरःसरो हरिः ॥ १ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca
kvacid vanāśāya mano dadhad vrajāt
prātaḥ samutthāya vayasya-vatsapān
prabodhayañ chṛṅga-raveṇa cāruṇā
vinirgato vatsa-puraḥsaro hariḥ
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said;  kvacit —one day;  vana-āśāya —just to enjoy a picnic in the forest;  manaḥ —mind;  dadhat —gave attention;  vrajāt —and went out of Vrajabhūmi;  prātaḥ —early in the morning;  samutthāya —waking up;  vayasya-vatsa-pān —the cowherd boys and the calves;  prabodhayan —to get everyone to rise, waking up and informing them;  śrṅga-raveṇa —by sounding the bugle made of horn;  cāruṇā —very beautiful;  vinirgataḥ —came out of Vrajabhūmi;  vatsa-puraḥsaraḥ —keeping the respective groups of calves in front;  hariḥ —the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, one day Kṛṣṇa decided to take His breakfast as a picnic in the forest. Having risen early in