The demigods, who had been hiding among the clouds to see what would happen, became distressed. The scriptures say that when the boys walked into the cave Krishna became momentarily aggrieved because He knew it was one of KamsaвЂ™s tricks. This was actually a demon-brother of PutanaвЂ™s, Aghasura, who had expanded himself into an eight-mile-long snake to kill the boys. One day the cowherd boys were playing when they came upon a mountain cave. However, rather than the parents protecting Krishna, it is the child who protected the village and all the people in it. Children were considered the wealth of the family and were protected from abuse. Their mothers cooked the noon meal and called them from the fields, or they would pack lunches for them. When the boys got a little older, they spent their days playing with the calves in a nearby field. He spent his childhood tending cows and calves while playing in the pasturing grounds with his friends. GoВ means вЂњcow.вЂќ PalaВ means вЂњone who tends to it.вЂќ Krishna is seen as a cowherd. PutanaвЂ™s soul attained liberation due to the benevolent act of offering her breast milk to Krishna and the inhabitants of Vrindavana cremated the body. When PutanaвЂ™s soul departed, her body returned to its real form: a gigantic witch that smashed trees as it fell, stretching across the landscape. Krishna closed His eyes and sucked out her life air, killing her, without taking her poison. Though the whole place was flooding, he found to his surprise that the ford which crossed the river was sticking out and he could clearly walk. He picked up the child and as if by intuitive guidance, he walked to the river Yamuna. Immediately, Vasudeva saw that this was divine intervention. The doors of the prison opened up by themselves вЂ“ all the guards fell asleep вЂ“ the shackles broke. The child was born on the eighth day into the dark half of the month, and it was pouring rain and thunder. All these days, they had been under house arrest, but now he shackled Vasudeva and put Devaki in a proper prison. When the eighth child was due, Kamsa got really nervous. The child was then delivered through Rohini. They reached out for Goddess Yogamaya and had her transfer the fetus from the womb of Devaki to the womb of Rohini, VasudevaвЂ™s other wife who lived far away from the prison in a village of Gokul. (Many scholars, have now accepted the period between 31 BC as the period in which Lord Krishna lived on earth.)Д«y the time the seventh child was conceived, the gods decided to intervene.

Shree krishna bal leela