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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.4.9
adriśyatānujā vishnoh
sāyudhāshta-mahābhujā
SYNONYMS
sā — that female child; tat-hastāt — from the hand of Kamsa; sam-utpatya — slipped upward; sadyah — immediately; devī — the form of a demigoddess; ambaram — into the sky; gatā — went; adriśyata — was seen; anujā — the younger sister; vishnoh — of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sa-āyudhā — with weapons; ashta — eight; mahā-bhujā — with mighty arms.
TRANSLATION
The child, Yogamāyā-devī, the younger sister of Lord Vishnu, slipped upward from Kamsa's hands and appeared in the sky as Devī, the goddess Durgā, with eight arms, completely equipped with weapons.
PURPORT
Kamsa tried to dash the child downward against a piece of stone, but since she was Yogamāyā, the younger sister of Lord Vishnu, she slipped upward and assumed the form of the goddess Durgā. The word anujā, meaning "the younger sister," is significant. When Vishnu, or Krishna, took birth from Devakī, He must have simultaneously taken birth from Yaśodā also. Otherwise how could Yogamāyā have been anujā, the Lord's younger sister?
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