Verse 17

¹³Then a great demon named Agha fell upon them, unable to bear the sight of their happy play; and his end is looked for every day even by the immortals, who have drunk the nectar and still want their own lives. ¹⁴Aghasura, sent by Kamsa, the younger brother of Baka and Baki, saw the children with Krsna at their head and said: This one is the killer of my brother and my sister, the two of them. I will kill him and his company with him. ¹⁵Once these have been made a water offering for my two friends, the people of Vraja are as good as dead. When the breath has gone, what care is there for the bodies? For those who live have their children for their breath.

¹⁶Having settled on this, the wicked one took on the huge body of a python, a league in length and thick as a great mountain, and lay across the road with his cave of a mouth held open, hoping to swallow them. ¹⁷His lower lip was on the ground and his upper lip against the clouds; the corners of his mouth were ravines and his fangs mountain peaks; inside his mouth was darkness, his tongue a broad road, his breath a rough wind, his eyes hot as a forest fire.