Text 25] The Killing of the Demon Aghasura 287
PURPORT

After talking about the terrible animal this way and that way, they
decided to enter the demon’s mouth. They had full faith in Krsna be-
cause they had experienced how Krsna had saved them from the mouth
of Bakasura. Now, here was another asura, Aghasura. Therefore, they
wanted to enjoy the sport of entering the demon’s mouth and being saved
by Krsna, the enemy of Bakasura.

TEXT 25
sey erisaeqnasaanid
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aT Aaa BT |
wal fatgentaeqaetcer:
eat MAT AMAL AAT TA URI
ittham mitho ’tathyam ataj-jfia-bhdsitam
Srutvd vicintyety amrsd mrsdyate
rakso viditvakhila-bhita-hrt-sthitah
svandm niroddhum bhagavan mano dadhe

ittham—in this way; mithah—or another; atathyam—a subject mat-
ter that is not a fact; a-tat-jfia—without knowledge; bhdsitam—while
they were talking; srutva—Krsna hearing them; vicintya—thinking;
iti—thus; amrsd—actually, truly; mrs@yate—who is trying to appear as
a false thing (actually the animal was Aghasura, but because of poor
knowledge they were thinking him to be a dead python); raksah—
(Krsna, however, could understand that) he was a demon; viditua—
knowing it; akhila-bhita-hrt-sthitah—because He is antarydmi, situ-
ated everywhere, in the core of everyone’s heart; svdndm—of His own
associates; niroddhum—just to forbid them; bhagavaén—the Supreme
Personality of Godhead; manah dadhe—made up His mind.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, who is situated
as antaryami, the Supersoul, in the core of everyone’s heart, heard
the boys talking among themselves about the artificial python.
