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## Chapter Thirty
**465** In the arena, where many citizens, kings, and other noblemen had gathered to watch, and where the excited shouts of all the wrestlers, along with the rhythmic sounds of their movements, created a captivating spectacle, the wrestlers, one after another, following the orders of Kansa, engaged in fierce battles, their pride and aggression resembling that of wild buffaloes. ||39||
After the ordinary wrestlers had fought, the wicked Kansa, desiring to pit Krishna against him, ordered the wrestler Chanura, who had a chest as broad as a mountain, and whose strong arms had thrown many arrogant wrestlers to the ground. Not only that, but he also signaled the wrestler Mustika with his menacing gaze, urging him to attack from behind. ||40||
Krishna and Chanura, both resembling lions in their stance and posture, with their feet firmly planted and their fists clenched with sharp nails, engaged in a relentless fistfight, striking each other with powerful blows. ||41||
Mustika, wielding a fist as hard as iron, was about to strike from behind, when Balarama, with lightning speed, shouted, "Stop! Stop!" and with a powerful blow to his jaw and head, rendered him lifeless. ||42||
Meanwhile, Krishna, with the strength of a lion and a resounding roar, embraced Chanura, who was twice his size, and with his powerful arms, squeezed him so tightly that blood gushed out, leaving him lifeless. ||43||
Krishna and Balarama possessed the strength of a thousand lions and elephants. Witnessing their valiant defeat of Kansa's two chief wrestlers, Kansa, wielding a sharp sword, charged towards them. His movement caused a mighty roar from the entire crowd, like the sound of the ocean. ||44||
Krishna, with lightning speed, snatched the sword from his enemy's hand, grabbed his hair, and with a surge of anger, threw him to the ground. Then, pulling his legs, and thinking, "This is the punishment he deserves," he smashed him against a rock, killing him. Krishna laughed after killing Kansa. ||45||
**Notes:**
1. "पीलितं दृप्तमल्लं" in the original text is corrected to "पीडितो दृष्टमल्लं" in the translation.
2. "अयुङ्क्त" is translated as "योजितवान्" (meaning "he engaged").
3. "पद" is translated as "feet".
4. "मृतम्" is translated as "lifeless".
5. "हरेः सिंहस्येव शक्तिर्यस्य सः" is translated as "he who possesses the strength of a lion".
6. "शाल" is translated as "rock".
7. "कोशेषु" is translated as "hair".