Devanagari
एकदारोहमारूढं लालयन्ती सुतं सती ।
गरिमाणं शिशोर्वोढुं न सेहे गिरिकूटवत् ॥ १८ ॥
Verse text
ekadāroham ārūḍhaṁ
lālayantī sutaṁ satī
garimāṇaṁ śiśor voḍhuṁ
na sehe giri-kūṭavat
Synonyms
ekadā
—
one time (estimated to have been when Kṛṣṇa was one year old)
;
āroham
—
on His mother’s lap
;
ārūḍham
—
who was sitting
;
lālayantī
—
was patting
;
sutam
—
her son
;
satī
—
mother Yaśodā
;
garimāṇam
—
because of an increase in heaviness
;
śiśoḥ
—
of the child
;
voḍhum
—
to bear Him
;
na
—
not
;
sehe
—
was able
;
giri
—
kūṭa — vat — appearing like the weight of a mountain peak .
Translation
One day, a year after Kṛṣṇa’s appearance, mother Yaśodā was patting her son on her lap. But suddenly she felt the child to be heavier than a mountain peak, and she could no longer bear His weight.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
One day, a year after Kṛṣṇa's appearance, mother Yaśodā was patting her son on her lap. But suddenly she felt the child to be heavier than a mountain peak, and she could no longer bear His weight.
KB 10.7.18
One day, shortly after the ceremony, when Mother Yaśodā was patting her baby on her lap, the baby felt too heavy, and being unable to carry Him, …
Purport
Lālayantī.
Sometimes a mother lifts her child, and when the child falls in her hands, the child laughs, and the mother also enjoys pleasure. Yaśodā used to do this, but this time Kṛṣṇa became very heavy, and she could not bear His weight. Under the circumstances, it is to be understood that Kṛṣṇa was aware of the coming of Tṛṇāvartāsura, who would take Him far away from His mother. Kṛṣṇa knew that when Tṛṇāvarta came and took Him away from His mother’s lap, mother Yaśodā would be greatly bereaved. He did not want His mother to suffer any difficulty from the demon. Therefore, because He is the source of everything (
janmādy asya yataḥ
), He assumed the heaviness of the entire universe. The child was on the lap of Yaśodā, who was therefore in possession of everything in the world, but when the child assumed such heaviness, she had to put Him down in order to give Tṛṇāvartāsura an opportunity to take Him away and play with Him for some time before the child returned to the lap of His mother.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
"What use are all these things for me, the Lord of all wealth?" When Krsna was one year old this event took place. Bhagavatam 10. 26.6. says that when he was one year old, Trnavarta took away Krsna. Placing Krsna on her lap and lifing him up in the air with her two hands Yasoda became blissful. Krsna then became heavy like a mountain top. Yasoda was not able to carry him. Knowing that Trnavarta was about to take away Yasoda along with himself, and wanting to avoid pain to Yasoda, Krsna displayed his aisvarya sakti and became heavy, so that she put him on the ground. "Yasoda can only lift me a little, but I want to play in the sky." Desiring like this, Krsna let the asura Trnavarta approach.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
“While living in Vraja I do not deserve to be covered up or restricted at all.” Thinking in this way, Kṛṣṇa desired to go into the sky. When he was one year old (ekadā), this event occurred, since it will be said later:
eka-hāyana āsīno hriyamāṇo vihāyasā
daityena yas tṛṇāvartam ahan kaṇṭha-grahāturam
At the age of one, while sitting peacefully he was taken up into the sky by the demon Tṛṇāvarta. But baby Kṛṣṇa grabbed the demon’s neck, causing him great pain, and thus killed him. SB 10.26.6
Yaśodā cared for him, kissing him and giving him her breast. Sometimes she lifted him in her arms playfully. She was knowledgeable (satī) of how to care for him. She was not able to carry him by her own strength. She was alone at the time. Later a similar condition is described:
ekadā gṛha-dāsīṣu yaśodā nanda-gehinī
karmāntara-niyuktāsu nirmamantha svayaṁ dadhi
One day when mother Yaśodā saw that all the maidservants were engaged in other household affairs, she personally began to churn the yogurt. SB 10.9.1
Purport (Sanatana Goswami)
“While living in Vraja I do not deserve to be covered up or restricted at all.” Thinking in this way, Kṛṣṇa desired to go into the sky. When he was one year old (ekadā), this event occurred, since it will be said later:
eka-hāyana āsīno hriyamāṇo vihāyasā
daityena yas tṛṇāvartam ahan kaṇṭha-grahāturam
At the age of one, while sitting peacefully he was taken up into the sky by the demon Tṛṇāvarta. But baby Kṛṣṇa grabbed the demon’s neck, causing him great pain, and thus killed him. SB 10.26.6
Though Kṛṣṇa who reveals at all times his unlimited nature as bhagavān has other attractive pastimes during this period, which are well known to the people of Mathurā, such as defeating the demon disguised as a brāhmaṇa named Śrīdhara, these pastimes are not related since they are not well known. Or Śukdeva could not tell all these unlimited pastimes in the short seven days that Parīkṣit had left of his life.
Children generally begin to walk when they are one year old, if they are strong. Before crawling, one astonishing pastime is mentioned. Or Śukadeva simply relates pastimes with increasing sweetness. Sometimes there is deviation from this, on considerations of chronology. Generally the events related are not strictly chronological. That will be seen in various places.
Yaśodā cared for him, kissing him and giving him her breast. Sometimes she lifted him in her arms playfully. She was knowledgeable (satī) of how to care for him. He became heavier that a mountain of rice or heavier than the gold peak of Meru, or heavier than all mountains. She could not lift him.
Since she always carried him with affection why he had become so heavy at this time?
Or though he is by nature heavier than countless universes, for the devotees he is light. In order to kill Tṛnāvarta, he manifested greater heaviness so that she would take him from her lap. Or Yaśodā’s power to carry him disappeared.