Text 14]
The Killing of the Demon Aghāsura
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pleasure of their various activities they could not eat their lunch. Therefore at lunchtime Aghāsura appeared by the arrangement of  yogamāyā , so that for the time being they could stop their activities and take lunch. Changing varieties are the mother of enjoyment. The cowherd boys would continuously play, then stop, and then again enjoy in a different way. Therefore every day a demon would come and interrupt their sporting pastimes. The demon would be killed, and then the boys would engage again in their transcendental pastimes.
TEXT 14
दृष्ट्वार्भकान् कृष्णमुखानघासुरः 
  कंसानुशिष्टः स बकीबकानुजः । 
  अयं तु मे सोदरनाशकृत्तयो- 
  द्वयोर्ममैनं सबलं हनिष्ये ॥१४॥
dṛṣṭvārbhakān kṛṣṇa-mukhān aghāsuraḥ 
  kaṁsānuśiṣṭaḥ sa bakī-bakānujaḥ 
  ayaṁ tu me sodara-nāśa-kṛt tayor 
  dvayor mamainaṁ sa-balaṁ haniṣye
dṛṣṭvā—after seeing; arbhakān—all the cowherd boys; kṛṣṇa-mukhān—headed by Kṛṣṇa; aghāsuraḥ—the demon by the name Aghāsura; kaṁsa-anuśiṣṭaḥ—sent by Kaṁsa; saḥ—he (Aghāsura); bakī-baka-anujaḥ—the younger brother of Pūtanā and Bakāsura; ayaṁ—this Kṛṣṇa; tu—indeed; me—my; sodara-nāśa-kṛt—the killer of my brother and sister; tayoḥ—for my brother and sister; dvayoḥ—for those two; mama—my; enam—Kṛṣṇa; sa-balaṁ—along with His assistants, the cowherd boys; haniṣye—I shall kill.
TRANSLATION
Aghāsura, who had been sent by Kaṁsa, was the younger brother of Pūtanā and Bakāsura. Therefore when he came and saw Kṛṣṇa at the head of all the cowherd boys, he thought, “This Kṛṣṇa has killed my sister and brother, Pūtanā and Bakāsura. Therefore, in order to please them both, I shall kill this Kṛṣṇa, along with His assistants, the other cowherd boys.”