South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c8.s5.4

c8.s5.4

Krishna is also represented as a winsome boy, full of fun and frolic and fond of thieving milk and butter from the neighbouring cottages of cowherds living at Brindāvana. It is said that on one occasion Yasōdā punished him by tying him up to a mortar. The child then ran along, dragging the mortar behind him; but in trying to pass between two tall and stout trees standing close together, the heavy mortar was caught between and felled them down; when lo!