Devanagari
हिन्वतोऽध: शयानस्य मास्यस्य चरणावुदक्
अनोऽपतद् विपर्यस्तं रुदत: प्रपदाहतम् ॥ ५ ॥
Verse text
hinvato ’dhaḥ śayānasya
māsyasya caraṇāv udak
ano ’patad viparyastaṁ
rudataḥ prapadāhatam
Synonyms
hinvataḥ
—
moving
;
adhaḥ
—
beneath
;
śayānasya
—
of Him who was lying
;
māsyasya
—
the child only a few months old
;
caraṇau
—
His two feet
;
udak
—
upwards
;
anaḥ
—
the cart
;
apatat
—
fell
;
viparyastam
—
turned upside-down
;
rudataḥ
—
of Him who was crying
;
prapada
—
by the tip of the foot
;
āhatam
—
struck .
Translation
Once, when only three months old, little Kṛṣṇa was crying and kicking up His feet as He lay beneath a huge cart. Then the cart fell and turned upside-down simply because it was struck by the tip of His toe.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Once, when only three months old, little Kṛṣṇa was crying and kicking up His feet as He lay beneath a huge cart. Then the cart fell and turned upside-down simply because it was struck by the tip of His toe.
KB 10.26.5
“When He was only three months old, He was sleeping underneath a hand-driven cart. Being hungry for His mother’s breast, He began to cry and throw His legs upwards. And from the kicking of His small feet the cart immediately broke apart and fell to pieces.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
How could he when only three months old moving his feet upwards, strike the cart and make it turn over and collapse?
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
The cart was slightly hit by the tip of his foot. His crying indicates his very young age. His turning over the cart at that age was most astonishing. This showed his great power. The same is illustrated in the following verses. Suffixes indicating spreading over time are mentioned in tam adhiṣṭo bhbhrto bhūto bhāvī (Pāṇini 5.1.80). Māsād vayasi yat khañau (Pāṇini 5.1.81) indicates that māsya means “a month old.” The next sūtra is dvigor yap: this indicates the age in a dvigu compound. Dvi-māsya means two months old. The word māsyasya in this verse means three months since it is said in the Second Canto traimāsikasya ca padā śakaṭo ‘pavṛtah: he overturned the cart with his foot when he was three- month-old. (SB 2.7.27)