Gopalacampu 1.8.59

1.8.59

[32] tatas tad anavadadhatī kuntala-santāna-bandhād vighaṭitāṃ paṭṭa-ḍorīm ekām upasādya, sadyaḥ sadma-dvārāntar upasadyamānam udūkhalam anu vatsa-gala-bandhavad alagnam evāvalagne sa-nirbandhaṃ bandhum udyatavatī, stanandhayaṃ śikṣā-jananī jananī | sā tu dvy-aṅgulāṅga-nyūnājani |

Then, not minding that, the mother, who was to be His teacher, obtained a single silk cord untied from the braid of her hair, and persistently endeavored to bind the nursling at His waist—not tightly, like the rope around a calf's neck—to the mortar stationed right within the doorway of the house. That [cord], however, turned out to be short by two fingers' breadth.