While living in that very locality (viz. Vrndāvana, Vraja) in the company of Balarama, even the glorious Lord Krishna feigned as if he did not notice the cowherds engaged in preparation for the Indra-yaga (worship of the rain,god Indra)…. Read More ›
One day the glorious Lord, the son of Devaki, accompanied by Balarama and surrounded by cowherds, went to a great distance from Vrndāvana, grazing the cattle. Perceiving that the trees served as umbrellas by spreading their shade in the scorching… Read More ›
In the first month (Märgadirsa), in the season of Hemanta, maids in the Vraja (cowherd-settlement of Nanda), observed the vow of adoring goddess Katyayani, eating only pure food fit for being offered to sacrificial fire. Having taken bath in the… Read More ›
In this beautiful forest, with its waters made crystal clear by the Autumn, and caressed by a breeze surcharged with the fragrance of beds of lotuses, Lord Krana entered deep, along with his cows and cowherds. While grazing the cattle,… Read More ›
Then after the summer, there was the advent of the rainy season which is favourable to the regeneration of all beings, and during which, the sky appears beautiful with refulgent circles round the Sun and the Moon, and is resounded… Read More ›
While the cowherds were deeply engrossed in playing, their cows roamed to a great distance, grazing at will, and lured by green pasture, strayed into an inaccessible part of the dense jungle. Entering from one forest area to another, the… Read More ›
Surrounded by his kinsmen whose hearts were full of delight, Krishna, whose glories were sung by them, entered Vraja looking beautiful with herds of cows. While Balarama and Krishna, assuming through their Mäyä power, the guise of cowherds, were… Read More ›
In the past, there was animosity between the Vinata mother of Garud, the vehicle of Lord Vishnu, and Kadru, the mother of the serpents. Remembering the animosity of his mother, Garuda would eat any snake that he found. Distraught… Read More ›
In the Yamuna, there was a certain pool, the haunt of Kaliya, the waters whereof were boiling with the serpent’s fiery poison and even the birds flying over it, fell dead due to poisonous vapours. Beings, mobile and immobile,… Read More ›
After attaining the pauganda stage (boyhood from the age of six to nine), those two brothers (Balarama and Kṛṣṇa) were approved (by Nanda and others) as suitable for the job of tending the cows’. While grazing the cows and their… Read More ›
I submit my eulogium unto you, Oh praiseworthy Lord (in the form of) the child of the cowherd Nanda-The Lord whose personality is dark-blue like a rainy cloud, in complexion; (who is) clad in silken garments refulgent like lightning;… Read More ›
Having saved the cowherd boys from death in the mouth of the demon Agha in the aforesaid manner, the Lord brought them to the sandy bank of the river, and spoke as follows: “Extremely beautiful is this bank of… Read More ›
One day, intending to have his break-fast (first meal) in the woods, Hari got up early in the morning and woke up his fellow cowherd boys (tending the calves) by the charming sound of his horn, and proceeded from… Read More ›
Glorious Lord of the Universe though he was, he sometimes danced like a child, sometimes sang loudly and behaved like a wooden doll under the control of the Gopis (cowherd women), when they encouraged him with their clapping of… Read More ›
On becoming the attendants of god Rudra, those two sons of Kubera, grew puffed up with vain gloriousness. Dead drunk with the liquor called Varuņi, thoroughly inebriated with their eyes rolling through intoxication, they, in company of singing women, were… Read More ›