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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.26.5

హిన్వతోఽధ: శయానస్య మాస్యస్య చరణావుదక్ । అనోఽపతద్ విపర్యస్తం రుదత: ప్రపదాహతమ్ ॥ ౫ ॥
hinvato ’dhaḥ śayānasya
[hinvato ’dhah shayaanasya]
māsyasya caraṇāv udak
[maasyasya charanaav udak]
ano ’patad viparyastaṁ
[ano ’patad viparyastam]
rudataḥ prapadāhatam
[rudatah prapadaahatam]
hinvataḥ — moving adhaḥ — beneath śayānasya — of Him who was lying māsyasya — the child only a few months old caraṇau — His two feet udak — upwards anaḥ — the cart apatat — fell viparyastam — turned upside-down rudataḥ — of Him who was crying prapada — by the tip of the foot āhatam — struck .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
hinvato ’dhaḥ śayānasya
hinvataḥ
moving
māsyasya caraṇāv udak
ano ’patad viparyastaṁ
adhaḥ
beneath
śayānasya
of Him who was lying
māsyasya
the child only a few months old
caraṇau
His two feet
rudataḥ prapadāhatam
udak
upwards
anaḥ
the cart
apatat
fell
viparyastam
turned upside-down
rudataḥ
of Him who was crying
prapada
by the tip of the foot
āhatam
struck .
  • māsyasya — 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.
  • caraṇau — 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.
  • anaḥ — 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.
  • viparyastam — 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.
  • prapada — 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.
Once, when only three months old, little Kṛṣṇa was crying and kicking up His feet as He lay beneath a huge cart. Then the cart fell and turned upside-down simply because it was struck by the tip of His toe.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Once, when only three months old, little Kṛṣṇa was crying and kicking up His feet as He lay beneath a huge cart. Then the cart fell and turned upside-down simply because it was struck by the tip of His toe.
Commentary

How could he when only three months old moving his feet upwards, strike the cart and make it turn over and collapse?

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

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)

Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)
Related verses
Concepts
Jiva

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.

Śakaṭa-bhañjana retold

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.

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