The sage Garga came to Gokula and named the two sons. Rohini’s son was named Rama and Yoshada’s son was named Krishna. Soon the babies learnt to crawl, and smeared with cowdung, roamed around everywhere. They went into the cowsheds and pulled the tails of calves.

On one particular day Yoshada got tired of all this. She got hold of some ropes and tied up Krishna to a thresher. Then she went away to do her housework. Krishna pulled and tugged at the thresher. There were two big Arjuna trees that grew not very far away. Krishna dragged the thresher to these trees and tried to pass through the space between them. But the thresher got stuck in the space between the two Arjuna trees. And as Krishna pulled and tugged, the huge trees were uprooted and fell down to the ground. At the tremendous noise everyone came running. They found the uprooted trees on the ground. And Krishna sat there amongst the wreckage, smiling. The rope and Yoshada had tied around his stomach was still there. Because a rope is called dama. Krishna came to be known as Damodara.