Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.11.55

aho batāsya bālasya

bahavo mṛtyavo 'bhavan

apy āsīd vipriyaḿ teṣāḿ

kṛtaḿ pūrvaḿ yato bhayam

SYNONYMS

aho bata — it is very astonishing; asya — of this; bālasya — Kṛṣṇa; bahavaḥ — many, many; mṛtyavaḥ — causes of death; abhavan — appeared; api — still; āsīt — there was; vipriyam — the cause of death; teṣām — of them; kṛtam — done; pūrvam — formerly; yataḥ — from which; bhayam — there was fear of death.

TRANSLATION

The cowherd men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, began to contemplate: It is very astonishing that although this boy Kṛṣṇa has many times faced many varied causes of death, by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead it was these causes of fear that were killed, instead of Him.

PURPORT

The cowherd men innocently thought, "Because our Kṛṣṇa is innocent, the causes of death that appeared before Him were themselves killed instead of Kṛṣṇa. This is the greatest grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

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