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tinue describing Krsna’s childhood activities, which are especially easy to
hear and which create more and more inquisitiveness.
TEXT 3
we ara darataagay |
MST STRAT TaTTAT Sea: UN 3 I
athanyad api krsnasya
tokacaritam adbhutam
manusam lokam dsddya
taj-jdtim anurundhatah

atha—also; anyat api—other pastimes also; krsnasya—of child
Krsna; toka-adcaritam adbhutam—they are also wonderful childhood
pastimes; ma@nusam—as if playing as a human child; lokam dsddya—
appearing on this planet earth in human society; tat-jatim—exactly like
a human child; anurundhatah—who was imitating.

TRANSLATION

Please describe other pastimes of Krsna, the Supreme Per-
sonality, who appeared on this planet earth, imitating a human
child and performing wonderful activities like killing Patan.

PURPORT

Maharaja Pariksit requested Sukadeva Gosvami to narrate other child-
hood pastimes exhibited by Krsna while playing as a human child. The
Supreme Personality of Godhead incarnates at different times in dif-
ferent planets and universes, and according to the nature of those places,
He exhibits His unlimited potency. That a child sitting on the lap of his
mother was able to kill the gigantic Piitana is extremely wonderful for
the inhabitants of this planet, but on other planets the inhabitants are
more advanced, and therefore the pastimes the Lord performs there are
still more wonderful. Krsna’s appearance on this planet like a human
being makes us more fortunate than the demigods in the higher planets,
