Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.11.51

tam āpatantaḿ sa nigṛhya tuṇḍayor

dorbhyāḿ bakaḿ kaḿsa-sakhaḿ satāḿ patiḥ

paśyatsu bāleṣu dadāra līlayā

mudāvaho vīraṇavad divaukasām

SYNONYMS

tam — unto Bakāsura; āpatantam — again endeavoring to attack Him; saḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa; nigṛhya — capturing; tuṇḍayoḥ — by the beak; dorbhyām — with His arms; bakam — Bakāsura; kaḿsa-sakham — who was the friend and associate of Kaḿsa; satām patiḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa, the master of the Vaiṣṇavas; paśyatsu — while observing; bāleṣu — all the cowherd boys; dadāra — bifurcated; līlayā — very easily; mudā-āvahaḥ — this action was very much pleasing; vīraṇa-vat — like the grass called vīraṇa (as it is bifurcated); divaukasām — to all the denizens of heaven.

TRANSLATION

When Kṛṣṇa, the leader of the Vaiṣṇavas, saw that the demon Bakāsura, the friend of Kaḿsa, was endeavoring to attack Him, with His arms He captured the demon by the two halves of the beak, and in the presence of all the cowherd boys Kṛṣṇa very easily bifurcated Him, as a child splits a blade of vīraṇa grass. By thus killing the demon, Kṛṣṇa very much pleased the denizens of heaven.

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