38 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 6
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TAL SA AA Mee TAT TAT UvVil
ya etat pitand-moksarm
krsnasyarbhakam adbhutam
Srnuydac chraddhayd martyo
govinde labhate ratim
yah—anyone who; etat—this; ptitand-moksam—-salvation of Pitana;
krsnasya—of Krsna; drbhakam—the childhood pastimes; adbhutam—
wonderful; srnuydt—should hear; sraddhayé—with faith and devotion;
martyah—any person within this material world; govinde—for the
Supreme Person, Govinda, Adi-purusa; Jabhate—gains; ratim—
attachment.
TRANSLATION
Any person who hears with faith and devotion about how Krsna,
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, killed Pitana, and who thus
invests his hearing in such childhood pastimes of Krsna, certainly
attains attachment for Govinda, the supreme, original person.
PURPORT
The incident in which the great witch attempted to kill the child but
was killed herself is certainly wonderful. Therefore this verse uses the
word adbhutam, meaning “‘specifically wonderful.” Krsna has left us
many wonderful narrations about Him. Simply by reading these narra-
tions, as they are described in Krsna, the Supreme Personality of God-
head, one gains salvation from this material world and gradually
develops attachment to and devotion for Govinda, Adi-purusa.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Tenth Canto, Sixth
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “‘The Killing of the Demon
Pitand.”
