Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 55


Sanskrit:

अहो बतास्य बालस्य बहवो मृत्यवोऽभवन् ।अप्यासीद् विप्रियं तेषां कृतं पूर्वं यतो भयम् ॥ ५५ ॥

ITRANS:

aho batāsya bālasyabahavo mṛtyavo ’bhavanapy āsīd vipriyaṁ teṣāṁkṛtaṁ pūrvaṁ yato bhayam

Translation:

The cowherd men, headed by Nanda Mahārāja, began to contemplate: It is very astonishing that although this boy Kṛṣṇa has many times faced many varied causes of death, by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead it was these causes of fear that were killed, instead of Him.

Purport:

The cowherd men innocently thought, “Because our Kṛṣṇa is innocent, the causes of death that appeared before Him were themselves killed instead of Kṛṣṇa. This is the greatest grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”