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Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu .1.309

kaumāraṁ pañcamābdāntaṁ paugaṇḍaṁ daśamāvadhi |
[kaumaaram panchamaabdaantam paugandam dashamaavadhi |]
ā-ṣoḍaśāc ca kaiśoraṁ yauvanaṁ syāt tataḥ param ||309||
[aa-shodashaach cha kaishoram yauvanam syaat tatah param ||309||]
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
kaumāraṁ pañcamābdāntaṁ paugaṇḍaṁ daśamāvadhi |
ā-ṣoḍaśāc ca kaiśoraṁ yauvanaṁ syāt tataḥ param ||309||
Childhood (kaumāra) ends with the fifth year. Boyhood (paugaṇḍa) ends with the tenth year. Youth (kaiśora) ends with the sixteenth year. After that is manhood (yauvana).

From His appearance day to the end of His fifth year is called kaumāra, from the beginning of the sixth year up to the end of the tenth year is called paugaṇḍa, and from the eleventh to the end of the fifteenth year is called kaiśora. After the beginning of the sixteenth year, Kṛṣṇa is called a yauvana, or a youth, and this continues with no change.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Durgama-saṅgamanī
Commentary

This is the general definition. Kṛṣṇa however should be understood to be special. Thus, there are verses such as following: kālenālpena rājarṣe rāmaḥ kṛṣṇaś ca gokule aghṛṣṭa-jānubhiḥ padbhir vicakramatur añjasā O King Parīkṣit, within a very short time both Rāma and Kṛṣṇa began to walk very easily in Gokula on Their legs, by Their own strength, without the need to crawl. SB 10.8.26

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