Verse 1.9.30

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.30:

শিশু-সঙ্গে গোষ্ঠে গিযা নানা-ক্রীডা করে বক-অঘ-বত্সাসুর করি’ তাহা মারে ॥ ৩০ ॥

शिशु-सङ्गे गोष्ठे गिया नाना-क्रीडा करे बक-अघ-वत्सासुर करि’ ताहा मारे ॥ ३० ॥

śiśu-saṅge goṣṭhe giyā nānā-krīḍā kare baka-agha-vatsāsura kari’ tāhā māre || 30 ||

sisu-sange gosthe giya nana-krida kare baka-agha-vatsasura kari’ taha mare (30)

English translation:

(30) Nityānanda and His childhood friends went into the fields and enjoyed various pastimes such as the killing of Bakāsura, Aghāsura, and Vatsāsura.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Regarding goṣṭhe nānā-krīḍā—“various pastimes in the pasturing fields,” the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.11.39-40) states: “Sometimes Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma would play on Their flutes, sometimes They would throw ropes and stones devised for getting fruits from the trees, sometimes They would throw only stones, and sometimes, Their ankle bells tinkling, They

would play football with fruits like bael and āmalakī. Sometimes They would cover Themselves with blankets and imitate cows and bulls and fight with one another, roaring loudly, and sometimes They would imitate the voices of the animals.”

The killing of Bakāsura is described in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.11.51) as follows: “When Kṛṣṇa, the leader of the Vaiṣṇavas, saw that the demon Bakāsura, the friend of Kaṃsa, was endeavoring to attack Him, with His arms He captured the demon by the two halves of the beak, and in the presence of all the cowherd boys Kṛṣṇa very easily bifurcated Him, as a child splits a blade of vīraṇa grass. By thus killing the demon, Kṛṣṇa very much pleased the denizens of heaven.”

The killing of Aghāsura is described in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.12.30-31) as follows: “When the invincible Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, heard the demigods crying ‘Alas! Alas!’ from behind the clouds, He immediately enlarged Himself within the demon’s throat, just to save Himself and the cowherd boys, His own associates, from the demon who wished to smash them. Then, because Kṛṣṇa had increased the size of His body, the demon extended his own body to a very large size. Nonetheless, his breathing stopped, he suffocated, and his eyes rolled here and there and popped out. The demon’s life air, however, could not pass through any outlet, and therefore it finally burst out through a hole in the top of the demon’s head.”

The killing of Vatsāsura is described in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.11.43) as follows: “Thereafter, Śrī Kṛṣṇa caught the demon by the hind legs and tail, twirled the demon’s whole body very strongly until the demon was dead, and threw him into the top of a kapittha tree, which then fell down, along with the body of the demon, who had assumed a great form.”