Text 29] The Atrocities of King Karnsa 303
TRANSLATION
Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Thus having been addressed in
purity by Devaki and Vasudeva, who were very much appeased,
Karnsa felt pleased, and with their permission he entered his
home.
TEXT 29
TA THA STA AA HA TET AAT: |
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CT AE AL aa ASH ANTATAT 2AANI
tasyam ratryam vyatitayam
kamsa Ghiiya mantrinah
tebhya dcasta tat sarvarh
yad uktam yoga-nidraya
tasyam—that; rdtryam—night; vyatitéyam—having passed; kam-
sah—King Katnsa; dhiiya—calling for; mantrinah—all the minis-
ters; tebhyah—them; dcasta—informed; tat—that; sarvam—all; yat
uktam—which was spoken (that Karnsa’s murderer was already some-
where else); yoga-nidraya—by Yogamaya, the goddess Durga.
TRANSLATION
After that night passed, Karnsa summoned his ministers and in-
formed them of all that had been spoken by Yogamaya [who had
revealed that He who was to slay Karnsa had already been born
somewhere else].
PURPORT
The Vedic scripture Candi describes mayd, the energy of the Supreme
Lord, as nidra: durga devi sarva-bhitesu nidra-ripena samasthitah. The
energy of Yogamayad and Mahamaya keeps the living entities sleeping in
this material world in the great darkness of ignorance. Yogamay4, the
goddess Durga, kept Karnsa in darkness about Krsna’s birth and misled
him to believe that his enemy Krsna had been born elsewhere. Krsna was
born the son of Devaki, but according to the Lord’s original plan, as
