BABY KRSNA

When Nanda Mahārāja saw the beauty of child Krsna, with tiger nails on His chest, a complexion like the new-grown tamala tree, beautifully decorated tilaka made with cow's urine, arm decorations of nice silk thread, and silk clothes tied around His waist, he never became satiated by the child's beauty.

In the middle kaumāra age, the upper portion of Krsna's hair falls around His eyes. Krsna's ornaments are a pearl hanging from the septum of His nose, butter on His lotuslike palms, and some small bells hanging from His waist. Sometimes He is covered with cloth around the lower part of His body, and sometimes He is completely naked. Sometimes He tries to walk, taking step by step, and sometimes He talks very sweetly, in broken language.