Krishna performed all the usual rites of infancy on his birth. The child began to grow up like the moon in the white fortnight.
जन्मप्रभृति कृष्णाश्च चक्रे तस्य क्रियाः शुभाः। स चापि ववृधे बालः शुक्लपक्षे यथा शशी॥