The Killing of the Demon Tṛṇāvarta

Because of her pure maternal love, mother Yaśodā thought that this wonderful child playing so many tricks must have had some disease. She did not appreciate the wonders shown by her child; rather, she wanted to close her eyes. She was expecting another danger, and therefore her eyes became restless like those of a deer cub. This was all the arrangement of Yoga-māyā. The relationship between mother Yaśodā and Kṛṣṇa is one of pure maternal love. In that love, mother Yaśodā did not very much appreciate the display of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s opulences. At the beginning of this chapter, two extra verses sometimes appear: evaṁ bahūni karmāṇigopānāṁ śaṁ sa-yoṣitāmnandasya gehe vavṛdhekurvan viṣṇu-janārdanaḥ “In this way, to chastise and kill the demons, the child Kṛṣṇa demonstrated many activities in the house of Nanda Mahārāja, and the inhabitants of Vraja enjoyed these incidents.” evaṁ sa vavṛdhe viṣṇurnanda-gehe janārdanaḥkurvann aniśam ānandaṁgopālānāṁ sa-yoṣitām “To increase the transcendental pleasure of the gopas and the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa, the killer of all demons, was thus raised by His father and mother, Nanda and Yaśodā.” Śrīpāda Vijayadhvaja Tīrtha also adds another verse after the third verse in this chapter: vistareṇeha kāruṇyātsarva-pāpa-praṇāśanamvaktum arhasi dharma-jñadayālus tvam iti prabho “Parīkṣit Mahārāja then requested Śukadeva Gosvāmī to continue speaking such narrations about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, so that the King could enjoy from them transcendental bliss.” Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Tenth Canto, Seventh Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “The Killing of the Demon Tṛṇāvarta.”