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like excessive delight, joy and fear while watching their combat.
18.
The host of gods standing in the sky (to watch this combat) sounded their own musical instruments and this sound echoed the trumpeting of the scented elephants and the loud beating of the drums of the Yadu army (below on the earth).
19.
The massive sound of the Sārnga-bowstring pulled by Krsna's hand drowns all other sounds. This massive sound conveyed the good news to Aniruddha's ears like a relay of messengers that carried news from momemt to moment.
20.
Muräri (the enemy of the demon Mura, i.e. Krsna) with a sharp-barbed arrow cuts off the demon Bāna's one arm as if it was a branch of a tree, massive and long and brownish in colour with the lustre of the jewels set in his golden bracelet.
21.
The cut off arm falls to the ground. Along with it fall the tears of the wives of Bāna and fully bloomed flowers of the celestial trees showered by the host of gods who were overjoyed at Krsna's heroic feat. .
22.
Again, Kșsna cut off his enemy's (Bāna's) arms, which carried bows and arrows and the fore-parts (prakostha) of which were marked with glossy (oily-looking) scars, produced by the friction (lit.pulling) of bow-strings, and which, for the Goddess of Victory over the three worlds, were pleasure ground.
23.
The battle-ground, full of those chopped off arms whose palms were shining with the lustre of the gems
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