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    1) The document is a collection of verses from the Padma Purana describing childhood pastimes of Lord Krishna known as Damodara Astakam. It tells how Krishna stole butter and was bound by his mother Yaśodā with a rope. 2) It praises Krishna's beauty and asks that his form as bound Damodara be ever manifest in the heart of the devotee. 3) It requests Krishna to bestow love and devotion like he gave to the sons of Kuvera who were delivered from a curse by Krishna in his childhood form.

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    1) The document is a collection of verses from the Padma Purana describing childhood pastimes of Lord Krishna known as Damodara Astakam. It tells how Krishna stole butter and was bound by his mother Yaśodā with a rope. 2) It praises Krishna's beauty and asks that his form as bound Damodara be ever manifest in the heart of the devotee. 3) It requests Krishna to bestow love and devotion like he gave to the sons of Kuvera who were delivered from a curse by Krishna in his childhood form.

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    Damodar Astakam

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    1) The document is a collection of verses from the Padma Purana describing childhood pastimes of Lord Krishna known as Damodara Astakam. It tells how Krishna stole butter and was bound by his mother Yaśodā with a rope. 2) It praises Krishna's beauty and asks that his form as bound Damodara be ever manifest in the heart of the devotee. 3) It requests Krishna to bestow love and devotion like he gave to the sons of Kuvera who were delivered from a curse by Krishna in his childhood form.

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    r Dmodaraka

    (found in the Padma Pura of Ka Dvaipyana Vysa, spoken by Satyavrata Muni in a conversation with Nrada Muni and aunaka i) "In the month of Krtika one should worship Lord Dmodara and daily recite the prayer known as Dmodaraka, which has been spoken by the sage Satyavrata and which attracts Lord Dmodara." (r Hari-bhakti-vilsa 2.16.198) Text One nammvara sac-cid-nanda-rpa lasat-kuala gokule bhrjamanam yaod-bhiyolkhald dhvamna parmam atyantato drutya gopy TRANSLATION To the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of eternal existence, knowledge, and bliss, whose shark-shaped earrings are swinging to and fro, who is beautifully shining in the divine realm of Gokula, who [due to the offense of breaking the pot of yogurt that His mother was churning into butter and then stealing the butter that was kept hanging from a swing] is quickly running from the wooden grinding mortar in fear of mother Yaod, but who has been caught from behind by her who ran after Him with greater speed-to that Supreme Lord, r Dmodara, I offer my humble obeisances. Text Two rudanta muhur netra-yugma mjantam karmbhoja-yugmena staka-netram muhu vsa-kampa-trirekhka-kahasthita-graiva dmodara bhakti-baddham TRANSLATION [Seeing the whipping stick in His mother's hand,] He is crying and rubbing His eyes again and again with His two lotus hands. His eyes are filled with fear, and the necklace of pearls around His neck, which is marked with three lines like a conchshell, is shaking because of His quick breathing due to crying. To this Supreme Lord, r Dmodara, whose belly is bound not with ropes but with His mother's pure love, I offer my humble obeisances. Text Three itdk sva-llbhir nanda-kue sva-ghoa nimajjantam khypayantam tadyeita-jeu bhaktair jitatva puna prematas ta atvtti vande TRANSLATION By such childhood pastimes as this He is drowning the inhabitants of Gokula in pools of ecstasy, and is revealing to those devotees who are absorbed in knowledge of His supreme majesty and opulence that He is only conquered by devotees whose pure love is imbued with intimacy and is free from all conceptions of awe and reverence. With great love I again offer my obeisances to Lord Dmodara hundreds and hundreds of times. Text Four vara deva moka na mokvadhi v na canya ve 'ha vared apha ida te vapur ntha gopla-bla sad me manasy virst kim anyai

    TRANSLATION O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions, I do not pray to You for the boon of impersonal liberation, nor the highest liberation of eternal life in Vaikuha, nor any other boon [which may be obtained by executing the nine processes of bhakti ]. O Lord, I simply wish that this form of Yours as Bla Gopla in Vndvana may ever be manifest in my heart, for what is the use to me of any other boon besides this? Text Five ida te mukhmbhojam atyanta-nlair vta kuntalai snigdha-raktai ca gopy muhu cumbita bimba-raktdhara me manasy virstm ala laka-lbhai TRANSLATION O Lord, Your lotus face, which is encircled by locks of soft black hair tinged with red, is kissed again and again by mother Yaod, and Your lips are reddish like the bimba fruit. May this beautiful vision of Your lotus face be ever manifest in my heart. Thousands and thousands of other benedictions are of no use to me. Text Six namo deva dmodarnanta vio prasda prabho dukha-jlbdhi-magnam kp-di-vyti-dna batnu ghea mm ajam edhy aki-dya TRANSLATION O Supreme Godhead, I offer my obeisances unto You. O Dmodara! O Ananta! O Viu! O master! O my Lord, be pleased upon me. By showering Your glance of mercy upon me, deliver this poor ignorant fool who is immersed in an ocean of worldly sorrows, and become visible to my eyes. Text Seven kuvertmajau baddha-mrtyaiva yadvat tvay mocitau bhakti-bhjau ktau ca tath prema-bhakti svak me prayaccha na moke graho me 'sti dmodareha TRANSLATION O Lord Dmodara, just as the two sons of Kuvera-Manigrva and Nalakvara-were delivered from the curse of Nrada and made into great devotees by You in Your form as a baby tied with rope to a wooden grinding mortar, in the same way, please give to me Your own prema-bhakti. I only long for this and have no desire for any kind of liberation. Text Eight namas te 'stu dmne sphurad-dpti-dhmne tvadyodarytha vivasya dhmne namo rdhikyai tvadya-priyyai namo 'nanta-llya devya tubhyam TRANSLATION O Lord Dmodara, I first of all offer my obeisances to the brilliantly effulgent rope which binds Your belly. I then offer my obeisances to Your belly, which is the abode of the entire universe. I humbly bow down to Your most beloved rmat Rdhr, and I offer all obeisances to You, the Supreme Lord, who displays unlimited pastimes.

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