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KB 1970-1-12 / The Killing of the Aghasura Demon
12 / The Killing of the Aghasura Demon
Once the Lord desired to go early in the morning with all His
cowherd boy friends to the forest, where they were to
assemble together and take lunch. As soon as He got up from bed,
He blew a buffalo horn and called all His friends
together. Keeping the calves before them, they started for the
forest. In this way, Lord Krsna assembled
thousands of His boy friends. They were each equipped
with a stick, flute and horn as well as lunch bag, and each
of them was taking care of thousands of calves. All the boys
appeared very jolly and happy in that excursion. Each and every
one of them was attentive for his personal
calves.
The boys were fully decorated with various kinds of golden
ornaments, and out of sporting propensities they began to pick
up flowers, leaves, twigs, peacock feathers and red clay from
different places in the forest, and they began to dress
themselves in different ways. While passing through the forest,
one boy stole another boy's lunch package and passed it to a
third. And when the boy whose lunch package was stolen came to
know of it, he tried to take it back. But one
threw it to another boy. This sportive playing went on amongst
the boys as childhood pastimes.
When Lord Krsna went ahead to a distant place in order to see
some specific scenery, the boys behind Him tried to run to
catch up and be the first to touch Him. So there was a great
competition. One would say, "I will go there and touch Krsna,"
and another would say, "Oh you cannot go. I'll touch Krsna
first." Some of them played on their flutes or vibrated bugles
made of buffalo horn. Some of them gladly followed the peacocks
and imitated the onomatopoetic sounds of the cuckoo. While the
birds were flying in the sky, the boys ran after the birds'
shadows along the ground and tried to follow their exact
courses. Some of them went to the monkeys and silently sat down
by them, and some of them imitated the dancing of the peacocks.
Some of them caught the tails of the monkeys and played
with them, and when the monkeys jumped in a tree, the boys
also followed. When a monkey showed its face and teeth, a boy
imitated and showed his teeth to the monkey. Some of the boys
played with the frogs on the bank of the Yamuna, and when, out
of fear, the frogs jumped in the water, the boys immediately
dove in after them, and they would come out of the water
when they saw their own shadows and stand imitating,
making caricatures and laughing. They would also go to an empty
well and make loud sounds, and when the echo came back, they
would call it ill names and laugh.
As stated personally by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in
the Bhagavad-gita, He is realized proportionately by
transcendentalists as Brahman, Paramatma and the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Here, in confirmation of the same
statement, Lord Krsna, who awards the impersonalist
Brahman realization by His bodily effulgence, also
gives pleasure to the devotees as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Those who are under the spell of external energy,
maya, take Him only as a beautiful child. Yet He gave full
transcendental pleasure to the cowherd boys who played with Him.
Only after accumulating heaps of pious activities, those
boys were promoted to personally associate with the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Who can estimate the transcendental
fortune of the residents of Vrndavana? They were personally
visualizing the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face, He
whom many yogis cannot find even after undergoing severe
austerities, although He is sitting within the heart. This
is also confirmed in the Brahma-samhita. One may search for
Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the pages of
the Vedas and Upanisads, but if
one is fortunate enough to associate with a
devotee, he can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to
face. After accumulating pious activities in many, many
previous lives, the cowherd boys were seeing Krsna face to face
and playing with Him as friends. They could not understand that
Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but they were
playing as intimate friends with intense love for Him.
When Lord Krsna was enjoying His childhood pastimes with His
boy friends, one Aghasura demon became very impatient.
He was unable to see Krsna playing, so
he appeared before the boys intending to kill them
all. This Aghasura was so dangerous that even the denizens of
heaven were afraid of him. Although the denizens of heaven
drank nectar daily to prolong their lives, they were afraid of
this Aghasura and were wondering, "When will the demon be
killed?" The denizens used to drink nectar to become immortal,
but actually they were not confident of their immortality. On
the other hand, the boys who were playing with Krsna had no
fear of the demons. They were free of fear. Any material
arrangement for protecting oneself from death is always unsure,
but if one is in Krsna consciousness, then immortality is
confidently assured.
The demon Aghasura appeared before Krsna and His friends.
Aghasura happened to be the younger brother of Putana and
Bakasura, and he thought, "Krsna has killed my brother and
sister. Now I shall kill Him along with all His friends and
calves." Aghasura was instigated by Kamsa, so he had come with
determination. Aghasura also began to think that when he
would offer grains and water in memory of his brother and
kill Krsna and all the cowherd boys, then
automatically all the inhabitants of Vrndavana would die.
Generally, for the householders, the children are the life and
breath force. When all the children die, then naturally the
parents also die on account of strong affection for them.
Aghasura, thus deciding to kill all the inhabitants of
Vrndavana, expanded himself by the yogic siddhi called mahima.
The demons are generally expert in achieving almost all kinds
of mystic powers. In the yoga system, by the perfection called
mahima-siddhi, one can expand himself as he desires. The demon
Aghasura expanded himself up to eight miles and assumed the
shape of a very fat serpent. Having attained this wonderful
body, he stretched his mouth open just like a mountain cave.
Desiring to swallow all the boys at once, including Krsna and
Balarama, he sat on the path.
The demon in the shape of a big fat serpent expanded his lips
from land to sky; his lower lip was touching the ground and
his upper lip was touching the clouds. His jaws appeared like a
big mountain cave, without limitation, and his teeth appeared
just like mountain summits. His tongue appeared to be a broad
traffic way, and he was breathing just like a hurricane. The
fire of his eyes was blazing. At first the boys
thought that the demon was a statue, but after examining it,
they saw that it was a more like a big serpent lying down in
the road and widening his mouth. The boys began to talk among
themselves: "This figure appears to be a great
animal, and he is sitting in such a posture just to swallow us
all. Just see -- is it not a big snake that has widened his
mouth to eat all of us?"
One of them said, "Yes, what you say is true. This animal's
upper lip appears to be just like the sunshine, and its lower
lip is just like the reflection of red sunshine on the ground.
Dear friends, just look to the right and left hand side of the
mouth of the animal. Its mouth appears to be like a big
mountain cave, and its height cannot be estimated. The chin is
also raised just like a mountain summit. That long highway
appears to be its tongue, and inside the mouth it is as dark as
in a mountain cave. The hot wind that is blowing like a
hurricane is his breathing, and the fishy bad smell coming out
from his mouth is the smell of his intestines."
Then they further consulted among themselves: "If we all at one
time entered into the mouth of this great serpent, how could it
possibly swallow all of us? And even if it were to swallow all
of us at once, it could not swallow Krsna. Krsna will
immediately kill him, as He did Bakasura." Talking in this way,
all the boys looked at the beautiful lotus-like face of
Krsna, and they began to clap and smile. And so they marched
forward and entered the mouth of the gigantic serpent.
Meanwhile, Krsna, who is the Supersoul within everyone's heart,
could understand that the big statuesque figure was a demon.
While He was
planning how to stop the destruction of His intimate friends,
all the boys along with their cows and calves entered the mouth
of the serpent. But Krsna did not enter. The demon was awaiting
Krsna's entrance, and he was thinking, "Everyone has entered
except Krsna, who has killed my brothers and sisters."
Krsna is the assurance of safety to everyone. But when He saw
that His friends were already out of His hands and were lying
within the belly of a great serpent. He became, momentarily,
aggrieved. He was also struck with wonder how the external
energy works so wonderfully. He then began to consider how the
demon should be killed and how He could save the boys
and calves. Although there was no factual concern on Krsna's
part, He was thinking like that. Finally, after some
deliberation, He also entered the mouth of the demon. When
Krsna entered, all the demigods, who had gathered to see the
fun and who were hiding within the clouds, began to express
their feelings with the words, "Alas! alas!" At the same time,
all the friends of Aghasura, especially Kamsa, who were all
accustomed to eating flesh and blood, began to express
their jubilation, understanding that Krsna had also entered the
mouth of the demon.
While the demon was trying to smash Krsna and His companions,
Krsna heard the demigods crying, "Alas, alas," and He
immediately began to expand Himself within the throat of the
demon. Although he had a gigantic body, the demon choked by the
expanding of Krsna. His big eyes moved violently, and he
quickly suffocated. His life-air could not come out from any
source, and ultimately it burst out of a hole in the upper part
of his skull. Thus his life-air passed off. After the demon
dropped dead, Krsna, with His transcendental glance alone,
brought all the boys and calves back to consciousness and came
with them out of the mouth of the demon. While Krsna was within
the mouth of Aghasura, the demon's spirit soul came out like a
dazzling light, illuminating all directions, and waited in the
sky. As soon as Krsna with His calves and friends came out of
the mouth of the demon, that
glittering effulgent light immediately merged into the body of
Krsna within the vision of all the demigods.
The demigods became overwhelmed with joy and began to shower
flowers on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and thus
they worshiped Him. The denizens of heaven began to dance in
jubilation, and the denizens in Gandharvaloka began to offer
various kinds of prayers. Drummers began to beat drums in
jubilation, the brahmanas began to recite Vedic hymns, and
all the devotees of the Lord began to chant the words, "Jaya!
Jaya! All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead!"
When Lord Brahma heard those auspicious vibrations which
sounded throughout the higher planetary system, he immediately
came down to see what had happened. He saw that the demon was
killed, and he was struck with wonder at the uncommon glorious
pastimes of the Personality of Godhead. The gigantic mouth of
the demon remained in an open position for many days and
gradually dried up; it remained a spot of pleasure pastimes for
all the cowherd boys.
The killing of Aghasura took place when Krsna and all His
boy friends were under five years old. Children under
five years old are called kaumara. After five years up to the
tenth year they are called pauganda, and after the tenth year
up to the fifteenth year they are called kaisora. After the
fifteenth year, boys are called youths. So for one year there
was no discussion of the incident of the Aghasura demon in the
village of Vraja. But when they attained their sixth year,
they informed their parents of the incident with great wonder.
The reason for this will be clear in the next chapter.
For Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is far
greater than such demigods as Lord Brahma, it is not at all
difficult to award one the opportunity of merging with His
eternal body. This He awarded to Aghasura. Aghasura was
certainly the most sinful living entity, and it is not possible
for the sinful to merge into the existence of the Absolute
Truth. But in this particular case, because Krsna entered into
Aghasura's body, the demon became fully cleansed of all sinful
reaction. Persons constantly thinking of the eternal form of
the Lord in the shape of the Deity or in the shape of a mental
form are awarded the transcendental goal of entering
into the kingdom of God and associating with the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. So we can just imagine the elevated
position of someone like Aghasura into whose body the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Krsna, personally entered. Great sages,
meditators and devotees constantly keep the form of the Lord
within the heart, or they see the Deity form of the Lord in
the temples; in that way, they become liberated from all
material contamination and at the end of the body enter into
the kingdom of God. This perfection is possible simply by
keeping the form of the Lord within the mind. But in the case
of Aghasura, the Supreme Personality of Godhead personally
entered. Aghasura's position was therefore greater than the
ordinary devotee's or the greatest yogi's.
Maharaja Pariksit, who was engaged in hearing the
transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna (who saved the life of
Maharaja Pariksit while he was in the womb of his mother),
became more and more interested to hear about Him. And thus he
questioned the sage Sukadeva Gosvami, who was reciting Srimad-
Bhagavatam before the King.
King Pariksit was a bit astonished to understand that the
killing of the Aghasura demon was not discussed for one year,
until after the boys attained the pauganda age. Maharaja
Pariksit was very inquisitive to learn this, for he was
sure that such an incident was due to the working of Krsna's
different energies.
Generally, the ksatriyas or the administrative class are always
busy with their political affairs, and they have very little
chance to hear about the transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna.
But while Pariksit Maharaja was hearing these transcendental
pastimes, he considered himself to be very fortunate because
he was hearing
from Sukadeva Gosvami, the greatest authority on the Srimad-
Bhagavatam. Thus being requested by Maharaja Pariksit, Sukadeva
Gosvami continued to speak about the transcendental pastimes of
Lord Krsna in the matter of His form, quality, fame and
paraphernalia.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twelfth Chapter of
Krsna, "The Killing of the Aghasura Demon."
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KB 12: The Killing of the Aghasura Demon
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Killing of the Aghasura Demon
Once the Lord desired to go early in the morning with all His
cowherd boyfriends to the forest, where they were to
assemble together and take lunch. As soon as He got up from bed,
He blew His buffalo-horn bugle and called all His friends
together. Keeping the calves before them, they started for the
forest in a great procession. In this way, Lord Krsna assembled
thousands of His boyfriends. They were each equipped
with a stick, flute and horn, as well as a lunch bag, and each
of them was taking care of thousands of calves. All the boys
appeared very jolly and happy in that excursion. Each and every
one of them, including Krsna, was attentive to his personal
calves as he herded them in the different places in the forest.
The boys were fully decorated with various kinds of golden
ornaments, yet out of sporting propensities they began to pick
up flowers, leaves, twigs, peacock feathers and red clay from
different places in the forest and further decorate
themselves in different ways. While passing through the forest,
one boy stole another boy's lunch package and passed it to a
third. And when the boy whose lunch package was stolen came to
know of it, he tried to take it back. But the boy who had it
threw it to another boy. This sportive playing went on amongst
the boys as childhood pastimes.
When Lord Krsna went ahead to a distant place in order to see
some specific scenery, the boys behind Him ran to try to
catch up and be the first to touch Him. So there was a great
competition. One would say, "I will go there and touch Krsna,"
and another would say, "Oh, you cannot go. I'll touch Krsna
first." Some of them played on their flutes or vibrated bugles
made of buffalo horn. Some of them gladly followed the peacocks
and imitated the onomatopoetic sounds of the cuckoo. While the
birds were flying in the sky, the boys ran after the birds'
shadows along the ground and tried to follow their exact
courses. Some of them went to the monkeys and silently sat down
by them, and some of them imitated the dancing of the peacocks.
Some of them caught monkeys by the tail and played
with them, and when the monkeys jumped into a tree, the boys
followed. When a monkey showed its face and teeth, a boy
imitated and showed his teeth to the monkey. Some of the boys
played with the frogs on the bank of the Yamuna, and when, out
of fear, the frogs jumped into the water, the boys immediately
dove in after them, and when the boys came out of the water
and saw their own shadows, they would stand imitating,
making caricatures and laughing. They would also go to an empty
well and make loud sounds, and when the echo came back, they
would call it ill names and laugh
As stated personally by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in
the Bhagavad-gita, He is realized proportionately by
transcendentalists as Brahman, Paramatma and the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Here, in confirmation of the same
statement, Lord Krsna, who awards the impersonalist the
pleasure of Brahman realization by His bodily effulgence, also
gives pleasure to the devotees as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Those who are under the spell of the external energy,
maya, take Him only as a beautiful child. Yet He gave full
transcendental pleasure to the cowherd boys who played with Him.
Only after accumulating heaps of pious activities were those
boys promoted to personally associate with the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Who can estimate the transcendental
fortune of the residents of Vrndavana? They were personally
seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face, He
whom many yogis cannot find even after undergoing severe
austerities, although He is sitting within their hearts. This
is confirmed in the Brahma-samhita: One may search for
Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, through the pages of
the Vedas and Upanisads, but it is difficult to find Him there.
However, one who is fortunate enough to associate with a
devotee can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to
face. After accumulating pious activities in many, many
previous lives, the cowherd boys were seeing Krsna face to face
and playing with Him as friends. They could not understand that
Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but they were
playing as intimate friends with intense love for Him.
When Lord Krsna was enjoying His childhood pastimes with His
boyfriends, one Aghasura demon became very impatient.
He was unable to tolerate seeing Krsna play so happily, and
therefore he appeared before the boys intending to kill them
all. This Aghasura was so dangerous that even the denizens of
heaven were afraid of him. Although the denizens of heaven
drank nectar daily to prolong their lives, they were afraid of
this Aghasura and were wondering, "When will the demon be
killed?" The denizens used to drink nectar to become immortal,
but actually they were not confident of their immortality. On
the other hand, the boys who were playing with Krsna had no
fear of the demons. They were free of fear. Any material
arrangement for protecting oneself from death is always unsure,
but if one is in Krsna consciousness, then immortality is
confidently assured.
The demon Aghasura appeared before Krsna and His friends.
Aghasura happened to be the younger brother of Putana and
Bakasura, and he thought, "Krsna has killed my brother and
sister. Now I shall kill Him along with all His friends and
calves." Aghasura was instigated by Kamsa, so he had come with
determination. Aghasura also thought that when he
would offer grains and water in memory of his brother and
sister and kill Krsna and all the cowherd boys, then
automatically all the inhabitants of Vrndavana would die.
Generally, for the householders, the children are the life and
breath force. When all the children die, then naturally the
parents also die on account of strong affection for them.
Aghasura, thus deciding to kill all the inhabitants of
Vrndavana, expanded himself by the yogic siddhi called mahima.
The demons are generally expert in achieving almost all kinds
of mystic powers. In the yoga system, by the perfection called
mahima-siddhi, one can expand himself as he desires. The demon
Aghasura expanded himself up to eight miles and assumed the
shape of a very fat serpent. Having attained this wonderful
body, he stretched his mouth open just like a mountain cave.
Desiring to swallow all the boys at once, including Krsna and
Balarama, he sat on the path.
The demon in the shape of a big fat serpent expanded his lips
from land to sky; his lower lip was touching the ground, and
his upper lip was touching the clouds. His jaws appeared like a
big mountain cave, without limitation, and his teeth appeared
just like mountain summits. His tongue appeared to be a broad
traffic way, and he was breathing just like a hurricane. His
eyes were blazing like fire. At first the boys
thought that the demon was a statue, but after examining it
they saw that it was a big serpent lying down on
the road and widening his mouth. The boys began to talk among
themselves: "Dear friends, this figure appears to be a great
animal, and he is sitting in such a posture just to swallow us
all. Just see -- is it not a big snake that has widened his
mouth to eat all of us?"
One of them said, "Yes, what you say is true. This animal's
upper lip appears to be just like the sunshine, and its lower
lip is just like the reflection of red sunshine on the ground.
Dear friends, just look to the right- and left-hand side of the
mouth of the animal. Its mouth appears to be like a big
mountain cave, and its height cannot be estimated. The chin is
also raised just like a mountain summit. That long highway
appears to be its tongue, and inside the mouth it is as dark as
in a mountain cave. The hot wind that is blowing like a
hurricane is his breathing, and the fishy bad smell coming out
from his mouth is the smell of his intestines."
Then they further consulted among themselves: "If we all at one
time entered into the mouth of this great serpent, how could it
possibly swallow all of us? And even if it were to swallow all
of us at once, it could not swallow Krsna. Krsna will
immediately kill him, as He did Bakasura." Talking in this way,
all the boys looked at the beautiful lotuslike face of
Krsna, and they began to clap and smile. And so they marched
forward and entered the mouth of the gigantic serpent.
Meanwhile, Krsna, who is the Supersoul within everyone's heart,
could understand that the big statuesque figure was a demon.
The boys did not know this, however, and thus while Krsna was
planning how to stop the destruction of His intimate friends,
all the boys along with their calves entered the mouth
of the serpent. But Krsna did not enter. The demon was awaiting
Krsna's entrance, and he was thinking, "Everyone has entered
except Krsna, who has killed my brother and sister."
Krsna is the assurance of safety to everyone. But when He saw
that His friends were already out of His hands and were lying
within the belly of a great serpent, He became momentarily
aggrieved. He was also struck with wonder at how the external
energy works so wonderfully. He then began to consider how He
could kill the demon and at the same time save the boys
and calves. Although there was no factual concern on Krsna's
part, He was thinking like that. Finally, after some
deliberation, He also entered the mouth of the demon. When
Krsna entered, all the demigods, who had gathered to see the
fun and who were hiding within the clouds, expressed
their feelings with the words "Alas! Alas!" At the same time,
all the friends of Aghasura, especially Kamsa, who were all
accustomed to eating flesh and blood, expressed
their jubilation, understanding that Krsna had also entered the
mouth of the demon.
While the demon was trying to smash Krsna and His companions,
Krsna heard the demigods crying "Alas! Alas!" and He
immediately began to expand Himself within the throat of the
demon. Although he had a gigantic body, the demon choked by the
expanding of Krsna. His big eyes moved violently, and he
quickly suffocated. His life air could not come out from any
source, and ultimately it burst out of a hole in the upper part
of his skull. Thus his life air passed off. After the demon
was dead, Krsna, with His transcendental glance alone,
brought all the boys and calves back to consciousness and came
with them out of the mouth of the demon. While Krsna was within
the mouth of Aghasura, the demon's spirit soul came out like a
dazzling light, illuminating all directions, and waited in the
sky. As soon as Krsna came out of
the mouth of the demon with His calves and friends, that
glittering effulgent light immediately merged into the body of
Krsna within the vision of all the demigods.
The demigods became overwhelmed with joy and showered
flowers on the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and thus
they worshiped Him. The denizens of heaven danced in
jubilation, and the denizens in Gandharvaloka offered
various kinds of prayers. Drummers beat drums in
jubilation, the brahmanas recited Vedic hymns, and
all the devotees of the Lord chanted the words "Jaya!
Jaya! All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead!"
When Lord Brahma heard those auspicious vibrations, which
sounded throughout the higher planetary system, he immediately
came down to see what had happened. He saw that the demon was
killed, and he was struck with wonder at the uncommon, glorious
pastimes of the Personality of Godhead.
The gigantic mouth of the demon remained in an open position
for many days and gradually dried up; it remained a spot of
pleasure pastimes for all the cowherd boys.
The killing of Aghasura took place when Krsna and all His
boyfriends were under five years old. Children under
five years old are called kaumara, from five years up to the
tenth year they are called pauganda, and from the tenth year
up to the fifteenth year they are called kaisora. After the
fifteenth year, boys are called youths. For one year there
was no discussion of the incident of the Aghasura demon in the
village of Vraja. But when the boys attained their sixth year,
they informed their parents of the incident with great wonder.
For Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is far
greater than such demigods as Lord Brahma, it is not at all
difficult to award one the opportunity of merging with His
eternal body. This He awarded to Aghasura. Aghasura was
certainly the most sinful living entity, and it is not possible
for the sinful to merge into the existence of the Absolute
Truth. But in this particular case, because Krsna entered into
Aghasura's body, the demon became fully cleansed of all sinful
reactions. Persons constantly thinking of the eternal form of
the Lord in the shape of the Deity or in the shape of a mental
form are awarded the transcendental benediction of entering
into the kingdom of God and associating with the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. So we can just imagine the elevated
position of someone like Aghasura, into whose body the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Krsna, personally entered. Great sages,
meditators and devotees constantly keep the form of the Lord
within their hearts, or they see the Deity form of the Lord in
the temples; in that way they become liberated from all
material contamination and at the end of the body enter into
the kingdom of God. This perfection is possible simply by
keeping the form of the Lord within the mind. But in the case
of Aghasura, the Supreme Personality of Godhead personally
entered. Aghasura's position was therefore greater than the
ordinary devotee's or the greatest yogi's.
Maharaja Pariksit, who was engaged in hearing the
transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna (who saved the life of
Maharaja Pariksit while he was in the womb of his mother),
became more and more interested to hear about Him. And thus he
questioned the sage Sukadeva Gosvami, who was reciting Srimad-
Bhagavatam before the King.
King Pariksit was a bit astonished to understand that the
killing of the Aghasura demon was not discussed for one year,
until after the boys attained the pauganda age. Maharaja
Pariksit was very inquisitive to learn about this, for he was
sure that such an incident was due to the working of Krsna's
different energies.
Generally, the ksatriyas or the administrative class are always
busy with their political affairs, and they have very little
chance to hear about the transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna.
But while Pariksit Maharaja was hearing these transcendental
pastimes, he considered himself to be very fortunate because
not only was he hearing Krsna's pastimes but he was doing so
from Sukadeva Gosvami, the greatest authority on Srimad-
Bhagavatam. Thus being requested by Maharaja Pariksit, Sukadeva
Gosvami continued to speak about the transcendental pastimes of
Lord Krsna in the matter of His form, qualities, fame and
paraphernalia.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twelfth Chapter of
Krsna, "The Killing of the Aghasura Demon."
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