MYTHOSATLAS

Puranic (Bhakti) tradition

The Butter Thief

The child Krishna raids every butter pot in Gokul, and when Yashoda finally ties him to a mortar as punishment, the rope is always two fingers too short. She looks into her yawning child's mouth and sees the whole universe inside; the vision closes, mercifully, and she picks up her son.

Figures in this story