Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.14.48
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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mahā-vyālaḥ
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the great serpent
Compound: mahā (great) + vyāla (serpent). Aghāsura — the python whose mouth opened like a cave. The boys had walked into it, thinking it a cavern; Kṛṣṇa expanded inside it and killed it. The most colossal of His childhood-feats.
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yaśodā-nanda-sūnunā
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by the son of Yaśodā/Nanda
Compound: Yaśodā + Nanda + sūnu (son). Both parental claims grammatically equal. The boys cannot decide whose son He more is — both Yaśodā's vātsalya and Nanda's vātsalya are equally proven by the act.
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avitāḥ vayam
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we were saved
Phrase: avita (protected) + vayam (we). Past passive. The boys credit their rescue precisely; sakhya-rasa has space for gratitude. The friend-savior framework — not master-servant, not master-disciple — the friend who saved his friends from the python.
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jaguḥ
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they sang
Third person plural perfect of √gā. The boys' homecoming chant. Sākī of saṅkīrtana — the spontaneous singing of Kṛṣṇa's deeds. Pavitra-kīrtiḥ (verse 47) becomes plural jagvuḥ (they sang) by verse 48.
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bālāḥ
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the boys
Plural of bāla — child. The bālas of Vraja. The same word as bāla-līlā (verse 2's tat-bāla-caritāni in SB 10.9). The verse closes the chapter's first half by handing the narrative to the boys themselves.
Actually, Lord Kṛṣṇa had killed the demon Aghāsura one year earlier, but the boys, bewildered by the mystic potency of Brahmā for one year, did not notice the time passing and thus thought that on that very day Lord Kṛṣṇa had killed the demon Aghāsura and was now returning home with them.
"One snake was killed by this small child of Yasoda and Nanda, or by this small child who gives fame and bliss. He also saved us from the huge snake."
The boys who had come from the family of Yaśodā called Kṛṣṇa the son of Yaśodā and others called him the son of Nanda. Or, they all praised both parents without making distinctions to show the good fortune on the families of Gokula by the parents’ presence.
The snake was killed by Yaśodā’s son who is bliss itself (Yaśodā-nanda-sūnunā). She attained satisfaction by his action.
Children running ahead of a procession arrive home and announce the day's wonder before the elders catch up — and in their telling the hero is shared property: some call him Yaśodā's boy, others Nanda's. Vraja's boys announce Kṛṣṇa's killing of Aghāsura, and the parentage is fluid because everyone in Vraja claims Him. Bhagavān has many mothers and many fathers; that is His glory.
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