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tinuing up to the end of the fifteenth year, Krsna’s arms, legs and
thighs became marked with three divisional lines. At that time
Krsna’s chest challenged the hill of the marakata jewel. His arms chal-
lenged the pillars of the indranila jewel, the three lines of His waist
challenged the waves of the River Yamuna, and His thighs challenged
beautiful bananas. One gopzt said, “With all these exquisite features of
His body, Krsna is too extraordinarily beautiful, and therefore I am
always thinking of Him to protect me because He is the killer of all
demons.”

The idea expressed in this statement is that the gopis were com-
paring their attraction for Krsna to an attack by demons; and to
counteract their attraction for the beauty of Krsna, they were also
turning to Krsna hopefully, because He is the killer of all kinds of
demons. In other words they were perplexed because on one hand
they were attracted by the beauty of Krsna, and on the other they
needed Krsna to drive away the demon of such attraction.

This kaisora age can be translated as adolescence. At the end of
this period all the gopis said, “Krsna is the killer of the attraction of
Cupid, and as such He disturbs the patience of all newly-married
girls. Krsna’s bodily features have become so exquisite—it is as if they
are all manifesting an artistic sense of the highest sort. His dancing
eyes have dimmed the brilliance of the most expert dancer, and so
there is no longer any comparison to the beauty of Krsna.”” Learned
scholars therefore describe the features of His body at this time as
nava-yauvana, newly-invented youthfulness. At this stage of Krsna’s
bodily features, the conjugal love affairs with the gopis and similar
pastimes become very prominent.

There are six features of conjugal love affairs, called peacemaking,
picking a quarrel, going to meet one’s lover, sitting together, separa-
tion and support. Lord Krsna expanded an empire of these six fea-
tures, of which He was the ruling prince. Somewhere He was picking
quarrels with the young girls, somewhere He was scratching them
with the nails of parrots, somewhere He was busy going to visit the
gopis, and somewhere He was negotiating through cowherd friends to
take shelter of the gopis.

Some of the gopis addressed Him thusly: ““My dear Krsna, because
