Devanagari
ऊचुरव्यवसितमतीन् गोपान्गोपीश्च बालका: ।
रुदतानेन पादेन क्षिप्तमेतन्न संशय: ॥ ९ ॥
Verse text
ūcur avyavasita-matīn
gopān gopīś ca bālakāḥ
rudatānena pādena
kṣiptam etan na saṁśayaḥ
Synonyms
ūcuḥ
—
said
;
avyavasita
—
matīn — who had lost all intelligence in the present situation
;
gopān
—
to the cowherd men
;
gopīḥ ca
—
and to the ladies
;
bālakāḥ
—
the children
;
rudatā anena
—
as soon as the child cried
;
pādena
—
with one leg
;
kṣiptam etat
—
this cart was dashed apart and immediately fell dismantled
;
na saṁśayaḥ
—
there is no doubt about it .
Translation
The assembled cowherd men and ladies began to contemplate how this thing had happened. “Is it the work of some demon or evil planet?” they asked. At that time, the small children present asserted that the cart had been kicked apart by the baby Kṛṣṇa. As soon as the crying baby had kicked the cart’s wheel, the cart had collapsed. There was no doubt about it.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The assembled cowherd men and ladies began to contemplate how this thing had happened. "Is it the work of some demon or evil planet?" they asked. At that time, the small children present asserted that the cart had been kicked apart by the baby Kṛṣṇa. As soon as the crying baby bad kicked the cart's wheel, the cart had collapsed. There was no doubt about it.
KB 10.7.9
All the men and women who were assembled for the holy function crowded around and began to suggest how the cart might have collapsed. No one could ascertain the cause, but some small children who were entrusted to play with baby Kṛṣṇa informed the crowd that it was due to Kṛṣṇa’s striking His feet against the wheel. They assured the crowd that they had seen how it happened with their own eyes, and they strongly asserted the point.
Purport
We have heard of people’s being haunted by ghosts. Having no gross material body, a ghost seeks shelter of a gross body to stay in and haunt. The Śakaṭāsura was a ghost who had taken shelter of the handcart and was looking for the opportunity to do mischief to Kṛṣṇa. When Kṛṣṇa kicked the cart with His small and very delicate legs, the ghost was immediately pushed down to the earth and his shelter dismantled, as already described. This was possible for Kṛṣṇa because He has full potency, as confirmed in the
Brahma-saṁhitā
(5.32)
:
aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti
paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti
ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Kṛṣṇa’s body is
sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha,
or
ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-vigraha.
That is, any of the parts of His
ānanda-cinmaya
body can act for any other part. Such are the inconceivable potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Lord does not need to acquire these potencies; He already has them. Thus Kṛṣṇa kicked His little legs, and His whole purpose was fulfilled. Also, when the handcart broke, an ordinary child could have been injured in many ways, but because Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He enjoyed the dismantling of the cart, and nothing injured Him. Everything done by Him is
ānanda-cinmaya-rasa,
full transcendental bliss. Thus Kṛṣṇa factually enjoyed.
The nearby children saw that actually Kṛṣṇa had kicked the wheel of the cart and this was how the accident happened. By the arrangement of Yoga-māyā, all the
gopīs
and
gopas
thought that the accident had taken place because of some bad planet or some ghost, but in fact everything was done by Kṛṣṇa and enjoyed by Him. Those who enjoy the activities of Kṛṣṇa are also on the platform of
ānanda-cinmaya-rasa;
they are liberated from the material platform. When one develops the practice of hearing
kṛṣṇa-kathā,
he is certainly transcendental to material existence, as confirmed in
Bhagavad-gītā
(
sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
). Unless one is on the spiritual platform, one cannot enjoy the transcendental activities of Kṛṣṇa; or in other words, whoever engages in hearing the transcendental activities of Kṛṣṇa is not on the material platform, but on the transcendental, spiritual platform.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The children who had witnessed the event explained it to the gopis who could not discern what had happened. "Is this the work of some demon or evil planets?" they asked.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Unsettled because of the surprising incident, they could not determine the cause of the cart crashing. Perhaps it was a demon or evil spirit. The children had been looking at Kṛṣṇa, attracted by his sweetness. That cart was turned over by the foot of Kṛṣṇa when he cried. Pointing out Kṛṣṇa using the word anena (by him), they indicate that they directly saw it at that time: there is no doubt about this; we definitely saw this.