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kvacid dhaiyaṅgava-stainye
mātrā baddha udūkhale
gacchann arjunayor madhye
bāhubhyāṁ tāv apātayat

kvacit — once; haiyaṅgava — butter; stainye — engaged in stealing; mātrā — by His mother; baddhaḥ — bound up; udūkhale — to a large mortar; gacchan — moving; arjunayoḥ — the twin arjuna trees; madhye — between; bāhubhyām — by His hands; tau apātayat — He made them fall.

Once, His mother tied Him with ropes to a mortar because she had caught Him stealing butter. Then, crawling on His hands, He dragged the mortar between a pair of arjuna trees and pulled them down.

The two arjuna trees were old and thick, and they towered above little Kṛṣṇa’s courtyard. Nevertheless, they were pulled down quite easily by the naughty child.

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