Verse 17

¹²Bharata, while the calf-herds were eating like this, their selves fixed on the Unfallen, the calves went far off into the wood, drawn on by the grass. ¹³Seeing them struck with fear, Krsna, who is the fear of fear itself, said: Friends, do not leave off eating. I will bring the calves back here myself. ¹⁴Saying this, the Bhagavan Krsna went off with the food still in his hand, looking for his own calves in the hills and caves and thickets and hollows. ¹⁵The lotus-born one had gone in among them to see some further sweet greatness of the Lord who was playing at being a child. Bearer of the Kuru line, he took the calves away from there, and then the calf-herds, and hid them elsewhere: he who had stood in the sky before, and seeing that mighty one release Aghasura had come to the greatest wonder.

¹⁶Then Krsna, not seeing the calves, and coming back to the bank and not seeing the calf-herds either, searched the wood on every side for both of them. ¹⁷Not finding the calves or their keepers anywhere in the wood, Krsna, who knows the whole world, understood at once that all of this was the Ordainer's doing.