Verse 1

¹The cowherds, Nanda and the rest, heard the noise of the two trees coming down and ran to the place, best of the Kurus, afraid it was a thunderbolt. ²There they saw the twin arjunas fallen to the ground, and they went about at a loss, making out no cause for the fall. ³There was the child, tied with the cord and dragging the mortar. Whose doing is this? Where has it come from? Is it a wonder or a portent? So they said, dismayed. ⁴The children said: It was he. He was dragging the mortar and it went crosswise as he passed between the trees. And we saw two men come out as well. ⁵They did not take what the children said. It cannot happen, they thought, that a child of his should tear up two trees. Some of them were left in doubt.

⁶And Nanda, seeing his own son tied with the cord and dragging the mortar, with laughter on his face let him loose.