After Aghasura, there were no other attacks on Krishna.

They had stopped for a reason quite unconnected with Kamsa.

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Ten years had passed with Krishna and Balarama in the village of Vrindavan and there was a relative calm in the place. And within the ten years, the two boys were very happy and so were the Gopas.

But then, the next attack adventure of Krishna and Balarama was with a unique demon by name Dhenukasura – or the Donkey Demon.

Sridama was the friend of Rama and he approached Balarama shyly, at first. "Rama, there is forest of palm trees..."

"The place called Talavana?" Balarama asked interrupting Sridama.

"Yes." Sridama nodded eagerly. "I have heard that the fruits from the place are the tastiest in the whole world."

"We will go there." Balarama said his eyes gleaming with joy.

He was surprised to see Sridama's face droop with unhappiness at his suggestion.

"We can't do that." Subala, another friend of the two brothers murmured unhappily.

"Why not?" Balarama asked looking confused.

"It is because of Dhenuka." Stokakrishna mumbled looking dejected.

"Who is Dhenuka?"

Dhenukasura turned out to be demon in the form of a donkey who had taken to mauling and maiming any person or animal who had come to the forest of Talavana.

Naturally, Balarama could not let it be. He and Krishna along with the others went to the forests.

The forest of Talavana was indeed a beautiful place – so beautiful and the fragrance and aroma from the trees almost rendered all the kids dizzy.

Balarama with his sheer strength shook a tree so ferociously that the fruits from the trees fell hard.

But none of the Gopas came forwards to pick up the fruits. Krishna made sure of it.

That was when they heard it – steady and hard footsteps of something galloping towards them. And accompanying the galloping was an ugly and ferocious bray.

The Gopas stared horrified as a huge donkey came running towards them.

It snorted and saw the powerful boy in the middle of the forest looking defiantly at it.

The boy did not move.

A few seconds later the donkey charged.

It kicked the boy hard on the chest, who fell back hard.

Krishna came forward and then stopped himself as Balarama pushed himself up.

He dusted himself, snarled angrily and this time he charged.

The donkey nearly faltered but charged by sheer instinct.

Balarama caught to donkey by the tail and whirled it and pushed it hard against the tree – no mere feet considering that the donkey was huge.

But Balarama did it effortlessly as he saw the donkey fall down and hurt itself.

Soon, the donkey and the boy were engaged in an impossible battle – impossible because the boy kept winning.

He kept tiring out the donkey and when the donkey nearly collapsed the boy killed it.

With a loud bray, Dhenukasura breathed his last.

Balarama was gasping for breath as he caught himself and was calming himself down when they heard it again.

This time the trampling sounds came from all over the forest.

Krishna did not even falter as he ran towards his brother.

Around them from all the places were herds of donkeys charging towards the two boys from everywhere.

So, what started like an uneven battle started between two boys and a herd of donkeys.

Naturally, the two boys still won.

(It could be that the Gopas wanted new lands to graze for their calves and they came to Talavana for that reason. They cleared this place of all the wild animals to get new places for their calves.

Secondly, after the death of Aghasura, the Bhagawat Purana mentions a rather strange incident of Brahma – the Creator God, and Krishna.

After defeating Aghasura, the boys were on the way to Vrindavan when Krishna asked them all to rest near the Yamuna.

The boys were pumped up with adrenaline watching Krishna defeat Aghasura and Krishna wanted to calm them down before the Gopa boys could go home.

As the boys were lying down, Krishna played his flute. The boys were thrilled and the music worked its magic on the boys.

When they had relaxed they found that the calves were missing. Krishna went in search of the calves and could not find the calves anywhere. He came back and found that even the Gopa boys were missing!

Using his powers, Krishna divined that Brahma had stolen both the Gopa boys and the calves.

Instead of fighting Brahma, Krishna used his powers and manifested himself as each one of the Gopa boys and even as the calves.

The boys and the calves that were created by Krishna went to their parents at Vrindavan and behaved like the boys with their parents and no one even knew that the boys were missing.

Krishna is said to have done this for a year.

Brahma finally seemed to have realized the power of Krishna and then released the boys. The real boys and the calves then went back to their parents and told them of the events of Aghasura because for the real boys the events with Aghasura had occurred just a day before and not a year previously – because they did not know of the time lapse.

The purport and the intent of this particular story with Brahma remain unclear.

Besides, the entire time shift and the loss of time could be the reason, why there were no attacks by Kamsa after this.)