Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.26.5
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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māsyasya
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the child only a few months old
Genitive of māsya (one of a few months). Bhāgavatam dates each demonic encounter — three months for Śakaṭa, one year for Tṛṇāvarta — because the chronology underscores the implausibility and so the divinity.
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caraṇau
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His two feet
Dual of caraṇa — sacred feet. The gopas list the toe-strike almost casually; but caraṇa-kamala is the highest object of bhakti, and a kick from these feet is itself the gift of liberation to Śakaṭāsura.
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anaḥ
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the cart
Anaḥ — bullock cart. Hostile to the infant, it housed an asura. Gauḍīya commentators read every Vraja demon as a former resident liberated through enmity (vairānubandha) — even the cart attains release.
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viparyastam
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turned upside-down
Vi- + paryasta — overturned, inverted. The cart's overturning is also an allegorical inversion: what looked like the threat to the child was undone by the child it threatened.
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prapada
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by the tip of the foot
Prapada — the very tip of the toe. The cosmos shaken by a toe-tip is the Bhāgavatam's recurring sign of svayaṁ-bhagavān; Brahmā contemplates these feet, Mahā-deva carries them on his head.
How could he when only three months old moving his feet upwards, strike the cart and make it turn over and collapse?
The cart was slightly hit by the tip of his foot. His crying indicates his very young age. His turning over the cart at that age was most astonishing. This showed his great power. The same is illustrated in the following verses. Suffixes indicating spreading over time are mentioned in tam adhiṣṭo bhbhrto bhūto bhāvī (Pāṇini 5.1.80). Māsād vayasi yat khaṣau (Pāṇini 5.1.81) indicates that māsya means “a month old.” The next sūtra is dvigor yap: this indicates the age in a dvigu compound. Dvi-māsya means two months old. The word māsyasya in this verse means three months since it is said in the Second Canto traimāsikasya ca padā śakaṭo ‘pavṛtah: he overturned the cart with his foot when he was three- month-old. (SB 2.7.27)
- What 'small gesture' of mine recently had larger consequences than I credited?
- Where am I underestimating the cosmic weight of small acts in His presence?
A potter's heavy cart, loaded with vessels, rests on a sleeping child's feet — and a single twitch of the toe overturns the whole thing. Kṛṣṇa kicks not in anger but in the half-conscious motion of an infant; the cart, an asura in disguise, falls because the foot it touched is the foot of all worlds.
Earlier in Canto 10 (10.7), Yaśodā had set the infant Kṛṣṇa under a cart while she went to attend a ceremony. The demon Śakaṭāsura had hidden in the cart to crush Him. A simple kick of the small foot reduced the cart to splinters; the cowherd women saw only an inexplicable accident.
Gauḍīyas note that the Vraja-vāsīs always seek a natural explanation first — vātsalya does not want a Lord, it wants a child. The verse here repeats the episode precisely because the gopas, six years later, still cannot quite believe what they saw.
My note
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