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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.2.30

ప్రయుక్తాన్ భోజరాజేన మాయిన: కామరూపిణ: । లీలయా వ్యనుదత్తాంస్తాన్ బాల: క్రీడనకానివ ॥ ౩౦ ॥
prayuktān bhoja-rājena
[prayuktaan bhoja-raajena]
māyinaḥ kāma-rūpiṇaḥ
[maayinah kaama-roopinah]
līlayā vyanudat tāṁs tān
[leelayaa vyanudat taams taan]
bālaḥ krīḍanakān iva
[baalah kreedanakaan iva]
prayuktān — engaged bhoja-rājena — by King Kaṁsa māyinaḥ — great wizards kāma-rūpiṇaḥ — who could assume any form they liked līlayā — in the course of the pastimes vyanudat — killed tān — them tān — as they came there bālaḥ — the child krīḍanakān — dolls iva — like that.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
prayuktān bhoja-rājena
prayuktān
engaged
bhoja-rājena
by King Kaṁsa
māyinaḥ kāma-rūpiṇaḥ
māyinaḥ
great wizards
kāma-rūpiṇaḥ
who could assume any form they liked
līlayā vyanudat tāṁs tān
līlayā
in the course of the pastimes
vyanudat
killed
tān
them
tān
as they came there
bālaḥ krīḍanakān iva
bālaḥ
the child
krīḍanakān
dolls
iva
like that.
The great wizards who were able to assume any form were engaged by the King of Bhoja, Kaṁsa, to kill Kṛṣṇa, but in the course of His pastimes the Lord killed them as easily as a child breaks dolls.

The atheist Kaṁsa wanted to kill Kṛṣṇa just after His birth. He failed to do so, but later on he got information that Kṛṣṇa was living in Vṛndāvana at the house of Nanda Mahārāja. He therefore engaged many wizards who could perform wonderful acts and assume any form they liked. All of them appeared before the child-Lord in various forms, like Agha, Baka, Pūtanā, Śakaṭa, Tṛṇāvarta, Dhenuka and Gardabha, and they tried to kill the Lord at every opportunity. But one after another, all of them were killed by the Lord as if He were only playing with dolls. Children play with toy lions, elephants, boars and many similar dolls, which are broken by the children in the course of their playing with them. Before the Almighty Lord, any powerful living being is just like a toy lion in the hands of a playing child. No one can excel God in any capacity, and therefore no one can be equal to or greater than Him, nor can anyone attain the stage of equality with God by any kind of endeavor. Jṣāna, yoga and bhakti are three recognized processes of spiritual realization. The perfection of such processes can lead one to the desired goal of life in spiritual value, but that does not mean that one can attain a perfection equal to the Lord’s by such endeavors. The Lord is the Lord at every stage. When He was playing just like a child on the lap of His mother Yaśodāmayī or just like a cowherd boy with His transcendental friends, He continued to remain God, without the slightest diminution of His six opulences. Thus He is always unrivaled.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
As if they were toys, the young boy casually killed all the demons who produced illusory forms according to their will and who were sent by Kaṁsa. He killed (vyanudat) the demons sent by Kaṁsa as if they were toys, lions made of leaves.
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