Kansvaho

SR No.: 001886
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rama Paniwada, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 266
Language: Prakrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Story, & Literature
File Size: 11 MB

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KAMSAVAHO
45. Verily, therefore, both of you fight a duel, according to the regulations (of the duel), with two wrestlers; let the Bhoja king, who is full of curiosity, know for himself the relative excellence of the strength of arms of us [the fighting parties]."
46. Hearing his words thus, Krşņa, being pleased, gets prepared and occupies himself with him [in a duel]; and Balarāma (lit., the pestle-bearer) also, being enraged, [occupies himself in a duel] with Mustika by means of his fists hard like the impact of the thunderbolt.
47. Theirs was a duel in which there was a mutual exchange of words harsh with reproach, in which arm-locks were being adopted, unfastened and dropping down, which was terrible on account of the clear and shrill sounds of (mutual] striking, and which agitated all the three worlds.
48. These [fighters], who drag with the pair of their hands the knees and shanks (of the opponents), whose limbs are broken and besmeared with blood in course of the conflict and by whose wild movements the circle of the earth was made to tremble, begin to display manifold feats of valour.
49. "Alas! what hard-hearted (person) would impell the tigers to fight with the youngs of hares? Let us go away, this is an unfair duel not to be witnessed": so speak the good people at that time.
50. Holding Cāņūra by both of his feet, Krsna dashes him with a crash on the ground; and similarly, in fact, his elder brother
(strikes down) that wicked Mustika: [thus) both the wrestlers met their end.
51. In fact so many wrestlers, that were fighting, were killed by the elder brother of Gada (i. e., Krsna); and so many, that were frightened, took to their heels: when the sun is distinctly arisen, even the planets are wiped (out of sight), then what of the swarms of fireflies?
52. "Let these boys, that are bitter by nature, be imprisoned per force, and let even these cowherd parties be killed violently;