तस्य तत् कर्म विज्ञाय कृष्ण: शरणद: सताम् । गोपान् नयन्तं जग्राह वृकं हरिरिवौजसा ॥ ३० ॥
tasya tat karma vijñāya kṛṣṇaḥ śaraṇa-daḥ satām gopān nayantaṁ jagrāha vṛkaṁ harir ivaujasā
- tasya
- of him, Vyomāsura
- tat
- that
- karma
- activity
- vijñāya
- fully understanding
- kṛṣṇaḥ
- Lord Kṛṣṇa
- śaraṇa
- of shelter
- daḥ
- the giver
- satām
- to saintly devotees
- gopān
- cowherd boys
- nayantam
- who was leading
- jagrāha
- He seized
- vṛkam
- a wolf
- hariḥ
- a lion
- iva
- just as
- ojasā
- forcefully
Lord Kṛṣṇa, who shelters all saintly devotees, understood perfectly well what Vyomāsura was doing. Just as a lion grabs a wolf, Kṛṣṇa forcefully seized the demon as he was taking away more cowherd boys.