gá¹›hÄ«tvÄpara-pÄdÄbhyÄá¹
saha-lÄá¹…gÅ«lam acyutaḥ
bhrÄmayitvÄ kapitthÄgre
prÄhiṇod gata-jÄ«vitam
sa kapitthair mahÄ-kÄyaḥ
pÄtyamÄnaiḥ papÄta ha
gá¹›hÄ«tvÄ - capturing; apara-pÄdÄbhyÄm - with the hind legs; saha - along with; lÄá¹…gÅ«lam - the tail; acyutaḥ - Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; bhrÄmayitvÄ - twirling around very severely; kapittha-agre - on the top of a kapittha tree; prÄhiṇot - threw him; gata-jÄ«vitam - lifeless body; saḥ - that demon; kapitthaiḥ - with the kapittha trees; mahÄ-kÄyaḥ - assumed a great body; pÄtyamÄnaiḥ - and while the tree fell down; papÄta ha - he fell dead on the ground.
Thereafter, Śrī Kṛṣṇa caught the demon by the hind legs and tail, twirled the demon’s whole body very strongly until the demon was dead, and threw him into the top of a kapittha tree, which then fell down, along with the body of the demon, who had assumed a great form.
Kṛṣṇa killed the demon in such a way as to get the kapittha fruits to fall so that He and BalarÄma and the other boys could take advantage of the opportunity to eat them. The kapittha is sometimes called ká¹£atbelphala. The pulp of this fruit is very palatable. It is sweet and sour, and everyone likes it.
