272 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 3

devakyah—of Devaki; sayane—on the bed; nyasya—placing;
vasudevah—Vasudeva; atha—thus; ddarikam—the female child;
pratimucya—binding himself again; padoh loham—iron shackles on the
two legs; dste—remained; purva-vat—like before; dvrtah—bound.

TRANSLATION

Vasudeva placed the female child on the bed of Devaki, bound

his legs with the iron shackles, and thus remained there as before.
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yasoda nanda-patni ca
Jatam param abudhyata
na tal-lingam parisranta
nidraydpagata-smrtih

yasodé—Yagoda, Krgna’s mother in Gokula; nanda-patni—the wife
of Nanda Maharaja; ca—also; jatam—a child was born; param—the
Supreme Person; abudhyata—could understand; na—not; tat-lin-
gam—whether the child was male or female; parisrdnta—because of too
much labor; nidraya—when overwhelmed with sleep; apagata-smrtih—
having lost consciousness. :

TRANSLATION

Exhausted by the labor of childbirth, Yasoda was overwhelmed
with sleep and unable to understand what kind of child had been
born to her.

PURPORT

Nanda Maharaja and Vasudeva were intimate friends, and so were
their wives, Yasoda and Devaki. Although their names were different,
they were practically nondifferent personalities. The only difference is
that Devaki was able to understand that the Supreme Personality of God-
