Verse 54

⁵⁴Hearing it, the cowherds were amazed, and the cowherd women, who held him more than dear, looked at him with thirsting eyes and longing, as at one come back from the dead. ⁵⁵Ah, how many deaths there have been for this child! Was something hateful done to those creatures long ago, that the danger should come from them? ⁵⁶And yet, terrible as they are to look at, they do not get the better of him. Coming at him to kill him, they perish, like moths in a fire. ⁵⁷Ah, the words of those who know Brahman are never untrue at any time. What the revered Garga said has come out just so. ⁵⁸So Nanda and the other cowherds, making the story of Krsna and Rama with delight and taking their pleasure in it, did not feel the pain of living.

⁵⁹In this way the two of them let their childhood go by in Vraja with children's games: hiding, building bridges, leaping about like monkeys, and the rest.