Jagat

  Although Krishna is generally thought of as an adolescent, sometimes This picture follows the idea that Krishna was only 11 years old when he left Vrindavan, as stated in the Bhāgavatam: tato nanda-vrajam itaḥ pitrā kaṁsād vibibhyatā | ekādaśa samās tatra gūḍhārciḥ sa-balo’vasat || Thereafter, His father, out fear of Kaṁsa, carried Him from prison to Nanda’s Vraja. He lived there with Balarāma for eleven years, like a hidden fire. (3.2.26)

Today's three verses are grouped together around the theme set by the words kiśorayor dvayam , "the pair of adolescent lovers." Syntactically, they are separate sentences and so are not a  sandānitaka , but nevertheless, we have decided to take them as a single unit. Later in this book there are several cases of long groupings of verses with as many as 50 verses to be taken as a single unit. These are called kulaka . ananta-ratimat priya-cchavi vilāsa-saṁmohanaṁ mahā-rasika-nāgarādbhuta-kiśorayos tad dvayam | vicitra-rati-līlayā nava-nikuñja-puñjodare smarāmi viharan-mahā-praṇaya-ghūrṇitāṅgaṁ mithaḥ || kadā kanaka-campaka-dyuti-vininditendīvara- varaṁ nava-kiśorayor dvayam agādha-bhāvaṁ mithaḥ | puraḥ sphuratu manmatha-kṣubhita-mūrti vṛndāṭavīṁ mamādhivasato mahā-sarasa-divya-cakṣur-yujaḥ ||2.48|| premānandojjvala-rasa-maya-jyotir-ekārṇavāntas tādātmyena sphuratu bahudhāścarya-vṛndāvanaṁ me | kuñje kuñje madhura-madhuraṁ tatra khelat-kiśora- dv...