Text 5] The Childhood Pastimes of Krsna 223
two beautiful men came out of the trees. We have seen this with
our own eyes.
PURPORT
Krsna’s playmates wanted to inform Krsna’s father of the exact situa-
tion by explaining that not only did the trees break, but out of the broken
trees came two beautiful men. ‘‘All these things happened,” they said.
“We have seen them with our own eyes.”
TEXT 5
° iN fas
13 Wh Wea wat qa aq!
e nN
TIAA Tats HAT aearTITT? UU
na te tad-uktam jagrhur
na ghateteti tasya tat
balasyotpadtanam tarvoh
kecit sandigdha-cetasah
na—not; te—all the gopas; tat-uktam—being spoken by the boys;
Jagrhuh—would accept; na ghateta—it cannot be; iti—thus; tasya—of
Krsna; tat—the activity; bdlasya—of a small boy like Krsna; ut-
patanam—the uprooting; tarvoh—of the two trees; kecit—some of
them; sandigdha-cetasah—became doubtful about what could be done
(because Gargamuni had predicted that this child would be equal to
Narayana).
TRANSLATION
Because of intense paternal affection, the cowherd men, headed
by Nanda, could not believe that Krsna could have uprooted the
trees in such a wonderful way. Therefore they could not put their
faith in the words of the boys. Some of the men, however, were in
doubt. “Since Krsna was predicted to equal Narayana,” they
thought, “‘it might be that He could have done it.”
PURPORT
One view was that it was impossible for a small boy like this to have
done such a thing as pulling down the trees. But there were doubts
