Gopala Champu 2: Krishna's childhood in Braj
1.2 Bālya-vilāsa The second campū ( pūraṇas 3-14) contains the description of Krishna's birth and boyhood. Chapter 3: Krishna's birth, the fortune that fulfilled the desire of people of Vraja. In this chapter, the two brothers, Madhukantha and Snigdhakantha, begin their narration of Krishna's life. Madhukantha first takes the primary role of the recitation, while Snigdhakantha asks questions and provides asides and footnotes to his speech. Taking up a Vraja-centred approach which places the Vrindavan Krishna in a position of ontological superiority over the Krishna of Mathura, Jiva does not follow the familiar narrative sequence found in the Puranas, but rather gives an account of Nanda and Yashoda's family background, their desire for a son and the fulfilment of that desire. The chapter contains a number of scholastic arguments to support this contravention of the traditional view. [One can look here at Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha 174, etc., for further details.] Fi...