एतत् कौमारजं कर्म हरेरात्माहिमोक्षणम् । मृत्यो: पौगण्डके बाला दृष्ट्वोचुर्विस्मिता व्रजे ॥ ३७ ॥
etat kaumārajaṁ karma harer ātmāhi-mokṣaṇam mṛtyoḥ paugaṇḍake bālā dṛṣṭvocur vismitā vraje
- etat
- this incident of delivering both Aghāsura and Kṛṣṇa’s associates from death
- kaumāra-jam karma
- performed during their kaumāra age (the age of five years)
- hareḥ
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- ātma
- the devotees are the Lord’s heart and soul
- ahi-mokṣaṇam
- their deliverance and the deliverance of the python
- mṛtyoḥ
- from the path of repeated birth and death
- paugaṇḍake
- at the age of paugaṇḍa, beginning with the sixth year (one year later)
- bālāḥ
- all the boys
- dṛṣṭvā ūcuḥ
- disclosed the fact after one year
- vismitāḥ
- as if it had happened on that very day
- vraje
- in Vṛndāvana
This incident of Kṛṣṇa’s saving Himself and His associates from death and of giving deliverance to Aghāsura, who had assumed the form of a python, took place when Kṛṣṇa was five years old. It was disclosed in Vrajabhūmi after one year, as if it had taken place on that very day.