Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.26.6
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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eka-hāyanaḥ
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one year old
Eka (one) + hāyana (year). The chronology — three months at Pūtanā, one year at Tṛṇāvarta — establishes the helpless infant's frame, against which the deed shines.
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vihāyasā
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in the sky
From vi + √hā — the open expanse. The demon's medium is the air; Kṛṣṇa's līlā follows him there. He meets every asura on the asura's chosen ground and ends him on Vraja's ground.
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daityena
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by the demon
Instrumental of daitya — descendant of Diti. Gauḻīyas teach that daityas are jīvas in tamo-guṇa whom Kṛṣṇa nonetheless redeems through vairānubandha; opposition still binds the mind to Him.
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kaṇṭha
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his neck
Kaṇṭha — the throat. The infant's grip on Tṛṇāvarta's neck mirrors Kṛṣṇa's later grip on Kāliya, Bakāsura, Aghāsura. Same hand, same outcome: the demon's breath returned to Him who is prāṇa.
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āturam
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tormented
From ā + √tur — afflicted, distressed. The demon, who came to torment, becomes ātura. The Bhāgavatam's recurring inversion: whoever lifts Kṛṣṇa in hatred ends up carried down by Him in mercy.
The cowherd men, who loved Kṛṣṇa as an ordinary child, were astonished by all these activities. A newborn infant cannot ordinarily kill a powerful witch, and one would hardly think that a one-year-old baby could kill a demon who has kidnapped him and carried him up into the sky. But Kṛṣṇa did all of these wonderful things, and the cowherd men were enhancing their love for Him by remembering and discussing His activities.
How could he who, when one year old, was stolen by Trnavarta, kill the demon?
He was just sitting. This indicates his very young age. He could not move at all on his feet. He afflicted the demon by holding his throat.
- Which 'kidnap' in my life — being carried off against my will — might be a setup for ending something else?
- Where do I see hostile situations only as victimhood when He sees opportunity?
A wrestler swoops onto a child to carry him off — only to feel the child's arms close around his neck like iron rings as they rise into the sky. Tṛṇāvarta lifted what he thought was a one-year-old; he carried home the weight of the universes.
Sent by Kaṁsa, Tṛṇāvarta swept Vṛndāvana with a great whirlwind and rose into the sky carrying the infant Kṛṣṇa (SB 10.7). Yaśodā collapsed in grief. But midair, Kṛṣṇa's weight grew until the demon could not hold Him; the small hands seized the demon's throat and rode him down to earth, his neck broken on a slab of stone.
Gauḻīyas read Tṛṇāvarta as the next in a series of liberated demons — each scripted by Kṛṣṇa's līlā so that even those who came in hate departed by His hand.
My note
Source: vedabase.io