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A poor friend, a torn cloth, and a palace that opened.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A prison, a storm, a basket across the Yamuna.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Colours, sticks and laughter.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

Bamboo and Krishna.

From the original text · Art and music histories

Yashoda looks into a small mouth and sees everything.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Share the sweet thing; love stays; ask next time.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

The poisoned pool and a snake who bows.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Seven days under a mountain umbrella.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

The never-empty vessel: a shared plate always has one more bite.

From the original text · Mahabharata

Krishna goes to ask for five villages. For ages 3–5 the story stops here.

From the original text · Mahabharata

The girl from Barsana who loved Krishna best.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

What he found where his hut had been.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A shared secret in a Vrindavan kitchen.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

A greeting that is also a small prayer.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A mango that only rises when everyone tells the truth.

From the original text · Mahabharata

The river makes way for Vasudeva's basket.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Lunch in the forest, shared from every hand.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Two brothers, one blue and one fair.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Evening in Vrindavan.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

A greeting with a god in it.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The first mornings in Gokul.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A thread of cloth on Krishna's finger.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Why the greeting in Braj is her name.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

A name chosen with love.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The colour of the sky and the sea.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Krishna's dance in the east.

From the original text · Art and music histories

Why Vishnu was born in Mathura.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Krishna, Radha and a handful of gulal.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A baby's foot and a broken cart.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Trinavarta, and a baby too heavy to carry.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

The hour he was born.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Jhula for a baby god.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A rope always two fingers short.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A mortar dragged between two trees, and two brothers set free.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Kailash and Govardhan.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The carts roll to a new home.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

For a whole year, no one notices.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Dhenuka in the tala grove.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Games, flute, cows and rain.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

The kitchen answers when the yajna does not.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Rain stops, and a king of gods says sorry.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A father rescued from the water god.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A curse undone by a touch.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

The chariot to Mathura, and a village that cannot bear it.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A bath that shows the whole of Vishnu.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

A bow snapped, a washerman, a garland-maker, and Kubja.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana