Verse 25

²⁵The Bhagavan heard this untrue talk of theirs to one another, spoken by those who did not know what they saw, and thought: here the true is being taken for false. Standing in the hearts of all beings, he knew it for a raksasa, and set his mind on holding his own back. ²⁶By then the children with their calves had gone inside the demon's belly and were not swallowed, for the raksasa was waiting for the entry of Baka's enemy, remembering his own dear ones who were killed. ²⁷Krsna, who gives freedom from every fear, looked at them: they had no other lord, they had slipped out of his hand, they were wretched, they were food for the fire in the belly of death. Pity struck him, and he was amazed at what fate had done.

²⁸What is to be done here, so that this wicked one shall not live and these good ones shall not be harmed? How can both be? Having thought it over and known it, Hari, whose seeing leaves nothing out, went into the mouth. ²⁹Then the gods, hidden behind the clouds, cried out in fear, Alas, alas; and Kamsa and the other flesh-eaters, who were Agha's friends, were glad. ³⁰Hearing that, the Bhagavan Krsna, who is never spent, grew all at once in the throat of the one who meant to crush the boys and the calves to powder.