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Chapter:-2 Collection of Examples
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Krishna again caused the proclamation to be made. Especially the people who were devoted to Dharma all became so. ||56||
After death, Dvaipayana was born among the Agnikumara. He remembered the past enmity and went to Dwaraka. ||57||
The Asura Dvaipayana saw all the people there, from the fourth, sixth, eighth, etc., all devoted to the worship of the Gods. ||58||
Unable to cause any harm there due to the influence of Dharma, the intelligent Dvaipayana searched for loopholes for eleven years. ||59||
In the twelfth year, the people thought that due to the penance, Dvaipayana was destroyed, defeated, and we are happy. ||60||
Those who were addicted to drinking and eating meat, started to indulge freely. The knowledgeable Dvaipayana also got an opportunity then. ||61||
Various calamities, similar to the calamities at the end of the Kalpa, appeared in Dwaraka, which were seen by the Yamadwaras. ||62||
Meteors fell, there were earthquakes, the planets emitted smoke and comets. ||63||
The sun's disc, full of holes, caused a rain of fire. Suddenly, there was an eclipse of the sun and moon. ||64||
The children in the houses made fun and applied leprous ointment. The images of the Gods, painted on the walls, laughed. ||65||
Dogs entered the city, and the Asura Dvaipayana, surrounded by Sakinis, Vetalas, etc., wandered around. ||66||
The citizens saw in their dreams that they were smeared with red cloth, submerged in mud, and being dragged towards the south. ||67||
The jewels of Balarama and Krishna, like the Sirac Chakra, etc., were lost. Then the Asura Dvaipayana created a whirlwind. ||68||
He took away everything from the city, wood, grass, etc., from all sides. He brought the people who were dying from all directions and threw them in the city. ||69||
The city was filled with wood due to the wind from all eight directions, which uprooted the branches. ||70||
The Asura set fire to the city of Dwaraka, burning sixty crore families outside and seventy crore families inside. ||71||
The fire blazed like the fire of destruction, engulfing the whole world with smoke and darkness. ||72||
The citizens, young and old, were unable to move even a step, as if they were tied together. ||73||
Hari, along with Vasudeva, Devaki, and Rohini, was putting them in the chariot, to save them from the fire. ||74||
The horses did not move, nor did the bulls. The serpents were paralyzed by the Asura, like they were struck by a thunderbolt. ||75||
Then Balarama and Krishna themselves pulled the chariot. The yoke of the chariot broke immediately, with a loud crack like a branch. ||76||
Even then, they pulled the chariot to the gate with their strength. The people, with sorrowful minds, cried out, "Save us, O Rama, O Krishna!" ||77||
Then the Asura immediately closed the gate with its doors. Rama, with a blow of his hand, broke them into pieces like earthen pots. ||78||
The chariot, as if swallowed by the earth, did not move. The God said to Rama and Krishna, "Is this your delusion? ||79||
Oh, it was told to you earlier, that without me, no one can be liberated. My penance has been bought by me." ||80||