Verse 1

¹One day, king, the young men of the Yadus went out to a garden to amuse themselves: Samba and Pradyumna, Caru, Bhanu, Gada and the others. ²Having played there a long while, they grew thirsty and went looking for water; and in a well that had no water in it they saw an astonishing creature. ³Seeing a lizard the size of a hill, their minds were struck with wonder, and out of pity they set about getting it out. ⁴The boys tied the fallen thing with straps of hide and ropes of thread, and still could not raise it. Worked up about it, they went and told Krsna. ⁵The lotus-eyed Bhagavan, out of whom the world comes, came there, looked at it, and lifted it out with his left hand, in play.