Sri Garga Samhita

BY: SUN STAFF

Dec 29, CANADA (SUN) —

Chapter Thirteen

Putana-moksha
The Liberation of Putana

Texts 1 and 2

sri-narada uvaca

saury-anamaya-pricchartham
karam datum nripasya ca
putrotsavam kathayitum
nande sri-mathuram gate

kamsena preshita dushta
putana ghata-karini
pureshu grama-ghosheshu
caranti gharghara-svana

While, to ask about Vasudeva's welfare, to pay his tax to the king, and to describe his son's birth-festival, Nanda was in Sri Mathura, the murderess Putana, sent by Kamsa, was traveling among cities, towns, and cowherd villages, making a menacing rumbling sound.

Text 3

atha gokulam asadya
gopa-gopi-ganakulam
rupam dadhara sa divyam
vapuh shodasa-varshikam

Coming to Gokula, which was filled with many gopas and gopis, the demoness assumed the form of a splendid sixteen-year old girl.

Text 4

na ke 'pi rurudhur gopah
sundarim tam ca gopikah
sacim vanim ramam rambham
ratim ca kshipatim iva

No gopa or gopi stopped this beautiful girl, who seemed to eclipse the goddesses Saci, Sarasvati, Lakshmi, Rambha, and Rati.

Text 5

rohinyam ca yasodayam
dharshitayam sphurat-kuca
ankam adaya tam balam
lalayanti punah punah

Ignoring Rohini and Yasoda, she took the infant on her lap, fondled Him again and again, and then exposed her breasts.

Text 6

dadau sisor maha-ghora
kalakutavritam stanam
pranaih sardham papau dugdham
katum roshavrito harih

When the very horrible demoness gave her poison-covered breast to Him, infant Lord Hari became angry and drank her life- breath along with the bitter milk.

Text 7

munca munca vadantittham
dhavanti pidita-stana
nitva bahir gata tam vai
gata-maya babhuva ha

Screaming "Leave me! Leave me!", and her breast filled with pain, she ran outside, bringing the infant with her and her magical illusion now gone.

Text 8

patan-netra sveta-gatra
rudanti patita bhuvi
nanada tena brahmandam
sapta lokair bilaih saha

Screaming, her eyes bulging and limbs perspiring, she fell to the ground, making a sound that filled the universe with its seven planetary systems and empty regions of outer space.

Texts 9 and 10

cacala vasudha dvipais
tad adbhutam ivabhavat
shat-krosam sa dridhan dirghan
vrikshan prishtha-tale gatan

curni-cakara vapusha
vajraagena nripesvara
vadantas te gopa-gana
vikshya ghoram vapur mahat

A great wonder happened. The earth and all its continents moved. She became twelve mils long and her thunderbolt body broke many tall and strong trees and made them fall to the ground. O king of kings, when the gopas saw her horrible gigantic body, they said:

Texts 11 and 12

asya anguli-go balo
na jivati kadacana
tasya urasi sanandam
kridantam su-smitam sisum

dugdham pitva jrimbhamanam
tam drishtva jagrihuh striyah
yasodaya ca rohinya
nidhayorasi vismitah

"The child was crushed by her fingers. He could not have remained alive." Then, seeing the smiling infant yawn after drinking the demoness' milk, and then play on her breast, the astonished women, along with Yasoda and Rohinia, grabbed Him, and pulled Him down from the breast.

Text 13

sarvato balakam nitva
raksham cakrur vidhanatah
kalindi-punya-mrit-toyair
go-puccha-bhramanadibhih

Then they took the child and acted to give Him protection by anointing Him with the Yamuna's sacred water and clay, by having a cow wave its tail before Him, and by doing other things also.

Text 14

go-mutra-go-rajobhis ca
snapayitva tv idam jaguh

Bathing Him with cow dust and cow urine, they chanted:

Text 15

sri-gopya ucuh

sri-krishnas te sirah patu
vaikunthah kantham eva hi
svetadvipa-patih karnau
nasikam yajna-rupa-dhrik

The gopis said: May Sri Krishna protect Your head. May Lord Vaikuntha protect Your neck. May the Lord of Svetadvipa protect Your ears. May Lord Yajna protect Your nose.

Text 16

nrisimho netra-yugmam ca
jihvam dasarathatmajah
adharav avatam te tu
nara-narayanav rishi

May Lord Nrisimha protect Your two eyes. May Lord Rama protect Your tongue. May Lord Nara-Narayana Rishi protect Your lips.

Text 17

kapolau pantu te sakshat
sanakadyah kala hareh
bhalam te sveta-varaho
narado bhru-late 'vatu

May the four Kumaras. who are Lord Hari's kala expansions, protect Your cheeks. May Lord Sveta Varaha protect Your forehead. May Lord Narada protect the two vines of Your eyebrows.

Text 18

cibukam kapilah patu
dattatreya uro 'vatu
skandhau dvav rishabhah patu
karau matsyah prapatu te

May Lord Kapila protect Your chin. May Lord Dattatreya protect Your chest. May Lord Rishabha protect both Your shoulders. May Lord Matsya protect Your hands.

Text 19

dor-dandam satatam rakshet
prithuh prithula-vikramah
udaram kamathah patu
nabhim dhanvantaris ca te

May powerful Lord Prithu always protect Your arms. May Lord Kurma protect Your abdomen. May Lord Dhanvantari protect Your navel.

Text 20

mohini guhya-desam ca
katim te vamano 'vatu
prishtham parasuramas ca
tavoru badarayanah

May Srimati Mohini protect Your private parts. My Lord Vamana protect Your hips. May Lord Parasurama protect Your back. May Lord Vyasa protect Your thighs.

Text 21

balo janu-dvayam patu
janghe buddhah prapatu te
padau patu sa-gulphau ca
kalkir dharma-patih prabhuh

May Lord Balarama protect Your knees. May Lord Buddha protect Your shins. May Lord Kalki, the master of religion, protect Your ankles and feet.

Text 22

sarva-raksha-karam divyam
sri-krishna-kavacam param
idam bhagavata dattam
brahmane nabhi-pankaje

The Supreme Personality of Godhead gave this glorious and transcendental Sri Krishna-kavaca (armor of Lord Krishna), which gives all protection, to the demigod Brahma on the lotus flower of His navel.

Text 23

brahmana sambhave dattam
sambhur durvasase dadau
durvasah sri-yasomatyai
pradac chri-nanda-mandire

Then Brahma gave it to Lord Siva. Lord Siva gave it to Durvasa Muni. Durvasa Muni gave it to Sri Yasoda in Sri Nanda's palace.

Text 24

anena raksham kritvasya
gopibhih sri-yasomati
payayitva stanam danam
viprebhyah pradadau mahat

In this way Sri Yasoda and the gopis gave protection to (infant Krishna). Then Sri Yasoda gave Him her breast milk to drink, and then she gave great charity to the brahmanas.

Text 25

tada nandadayo gopa
agata mathura-purat
drishtva ghoram putanakhyam
babhuvur bhaya-vihvalah

When, just returned from Mathura City, the gopas headed by Nanda saw horrible Putana, they were overcome with fear.

Text 26

chitva kutharais tad-deham
gopah sri-yamuna-tate
anekas ca citah kritva
dahayam asur eva tam

Cutting it up with axes, and making many pyres by Sri Yamuna's shore, the gopas burned her body.

Text 27

ela-lavanga-srikhanda-
tagaraguru-gandhi-bhrit
dhumo dagdhasya dehasya
pavitrasya samutthitah

The smoke that rose from her now purified burning body was fragrant as ela, lavanga, srikhanda, tagra, and aguru.

Text 28

aho krishnam rite kam va
vrajama saranam tv iha
putanayai moksha-gatim
dadau patita-pavanah

Of whom else but Krishna will we take shelter? The purifier of the fallen, He gave liberation to Putana.

Text 29

sri-bahulasva uvaca

keyam va rakshasi purvam
putana bala-ghatini
visha-stana dushta-bhava
param moksham katham gata

Sri Bahulasva said: Who was this demoness in her previous birth? Why did evil Putana, who murdered children by giving them her poisoned breast, attain ultimate liberation?

Text 30

sri-narada uvaca

bali-yajne vamanasya
drishtva rupam atah param
bali-kanya ratnamala
putra-sneham cakara ha

Seeing the form of Lord Vamana in Bali Maharaja's yajna, Bali's daughter Ratnamala felt for the Lord (a mother's) love for her son.

Text 31

etadriso yadi bhaved
balas tam hi suci-smitam
payayami stanam tena
prasannam me manas tada

(She thought:) If I had a son like Him, then I would give that gloriously smiling son the milk from my breast to drink. In that way my heart would become happy.

Text 32

baleh parama-bhaktasya
sutayai vamano harih
manorathas tu te bhuyan
manasy api varam dadau

"May your desire be fulfilled." In this way the Personality of Godhead, Lord Vamana, gave a blessing in his heart to the daughter of His great devotee Bali Maharaja.

Text 33

sabhavad dvaparante vai
putana nama visruta
sri-krishna-sparsa-sambhuta
param prapta-manoratha

At the end of Dvapara-yuga she became known as Putana. Then, by Lord Krishna's touch, she attained her desire.

Text 34

yah putana-moksham imam srinoti
krishnasya devasya parat parasya
bhaktir bhavet prema-yutapi tasya
tri-varga-suddhih kim u maithilendra

O king of Mithila, a person who hears of Putana's liberation will become purified of the three material desires and will attain pure love and devotion for Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than the greatest.

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