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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.2.26
pitrā kamsād vibibhyatā
SYNONYMS
tatah — thereafter; nanda-vrajam — cow pastures of Nanda Mahārāja; itah — being brought up; pitrā — by His father; kamsāt — from Kamsa; vibibhyatā — being afraid of; ekādaśa — eleven; samāh — years; tatra — therein; gūdha-arcih — covered fire; sa-balah — with Baladeva; avasat — resided.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, His father, being afraid of Kamsa, brought Him to the cow pastures of Mahārāja Nanda, and there He lived for eleven years like a covered flame with His elder brother, Baladeva.
PURPORT
There was no necessity of the Lord's being dispatched to the house of Nanda Mahārāja out of fear of Kamsa's determination to kill Him as soon as He appeared. It is the business of the asuras to try to kill the Supreme Personality of Godhead or to prove by all means that there is no God or that Krishna is an ordinary human being and not God. Lord Krishna is not affected by such determination of men of Kamsa's class, but in order to play the role of a child He agreed to be carried by His father to the cow pastures of Nanda Mahārāja because Vasudeva was afraid of Kamsa. Nanda Mahārāja was due to receive Him as his child, and Yaśodāmayī was also to enjoy the childhood pastimes of the Lord, and therefore to fulfill everyone's desire, He was carried from Mathurā to Vrindāvana just after His appearance in the prison house of Kamsa. He lived there for eleven years and completed all His fascinating pastimes of childhood, boyhood and adolescence with His elder brother, Lord Baladeva, His first expansion. Vasudeva's thought of protecting Krishna from the wrath of Kamsa is part of a transcendental relationship. The Lord enjoys more when someone takes Him as his subordinate son who needs the protection of a father than He does when someone accepts Him as the Supreme Lord. He is the father of everyone, and He protects everyone, but when His devotee takes it for granted that the Lord is to be protected by the devotee's care, it is a transcendental joy for the Lord. Thus when Vasudeva, out of fear of Kamsa, carried Him to Vrindāvana, the Lord enjoyed it; otherwise, He had no fear from Kamsa or anyone else.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness