What happens in this skandha

Krishna is born in Kamsa's prison and carried across the Yamuna to Gokul. In Vraja he steals butter, is tied by his mother, shows her the universe in his mouth, subdues Kaliya, lifts Govardhana and dances the Rasa. He goes to Mathura and ends Kamsa, sends Uddhava back to the grieving gopis, builds Dvaraka, marries Rukmini, and receives his poor brahmana friend. Four of the seven days of a Bhagavata Saptah are spent in this book.

Episodes in this skandha

• Krishna is born in Kamsa's prison — Skandha 10, adhyayas 1-4 — A voice warns Kamsa that Devaki's eighth child will kill him; six die, and the eighth is carried across the Yamuna at midnight.
• Yashoda sees the universe in his mouth — Skandha 10, adhyaya 8 — Told her toddler ate mud, a mother opens his mouth to check — and sees the whole universe, herself and her village inside it.
• Tied with a rope — Skandha 10, adhyayas 9-10 — Every rope Yashoda ties is two fingers short — until she is exhausted, and the child lets himself be bound.
• Brahma steals the calves — Skandha 10, adhyayas 13-14 — The creator hides Krishna's calves and cowherd friends for a year to test him, and finds Krishna has quietly become all of them.
• Krishna dances on Kaliya — Skandha 10, adhyayas 16-17 — A many-headed serpent poisons a lake of the Yamuna, and a boy jumps in and dances on its hoods until it yields.
• Krishna lifts Govardhana — Skandha 10, adhyayas 24-27 — A boy talks his village out of worshipping Indra, Indra sends a week of storms, and the boy holds up a hill on one finger.
• The Rasa dance — Skandha 10, adhyayas 29-33 — On an autumn night the flute calls and the gopis leave everything; then Krishna vanishes, and their song of longing is the Gopi Gita.
• Akrura, Mathura and Kamsa — Skandha 10, adhyayas 38-44 — The man sent to bring Krishna to his death is a devotee, and the journey to Mathura ends with Kamsa's fall.
• Uddhava in Vraja — the song to the bee — Skandha 10, adhyayas 46-47 — Krishna sends his wisest friend to console the gopis with philosophy, and Uddhava goes home wishing to be a creeper in Vrindavan.
• Rukmini's letter — Skandha 10, adhyayas 52-54 — A princess about to be married against her will sends a brahmana with a letter: come and take me, or I give up my life.
• The poor brahmana friend — Skandha 10, adhyayas 80-81 — A starving schoolfriend visits the king of Dvaraka with a cloth of flattened rice, too ashamed to ask for anything.

Continue through the Bhagavatam

• Navama Skandha — Skandha 9 — The solar and lunar dynasties: Ambarisha's patience, the Ganga brought down to earth, and Rama's life in two chapters.
• Ekadasha Skandha — Skandha 11 — Krishna's last teaching, to Uddhava, before he leaves the world: twenty-four teachers, the swan, and the mendicant's song.