Text 19] The Killing of the Demon Trnavarta 61
stood that Krsna was aware of the coming of Trndvartasura, who would
take Him far away from His mother. Krsna knew that when Trnavarta
came and took Him away from His mother’s lap, mother Yasoda would be
greatly bereaved. He did not want His mother to suffer any difficulty
from the demon. Therefore, because He is the source of everything (jan-
mady asya yatah), He assumed the heaviness of the entire universe. The
child was on the lap of Yasoda, who was therefore in possession of every-
thing in the world, but when the child assumed such heaviness, she had
to put Him down in order to give Trnavartasura an opportunity to take
Him away and play with Him for some time before the child returned to
the lap of His mother.
TEXT 19
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MAETATEAM «= ATATATA «HA 112811
bhiimau nidhaya tam gopi
vismita bhdara-pidita
maha-purusam ddadhyau
Jagatam dsa karmasu

bhimau—on the ground; nidhdéya—placing; tam—the child; gopi—
mother Yasoda; vismita—being astonished; bhdra-pidita—being ag-
grieved by the weight of the child; mahd-purusam—Lord Visnu,
Narayana; ddadhyau—took shelter of; jagatam—as if the weight of the
whole world; dsa—engaged herself; karmasu—in other household
affairs.

TRANSLATION

Feeling the child to be as heavy as the entire universe and
therefore being anxious, thinking that perhaps the child was being
attacked by some other ghost or demon, the astonished mother
Yasoda put the child down on the ground and began to think of
Narayana. Foreseeing disturbances, she called for the brahmanas
to counteract this heaviness, and then she engaged in her other
household affairs. She had no alternative than to remember the
lotus feet of Narayana, for she could not understand that Krsna
was the original source of everything.
