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The Seventy-Seventh Chapter
A cow with a calf pushed him, causing him to fall. The wicked Visakha-nandi, banished from his kingdom due to his foolishness, wandered through many lands and came to reside in Mathura. He was sitting on the roof of a prostitute's house when he saw Vishva-nandi fall. He laughed scornfully, saying, "Where is your prowess now?"
Vishva-nandi, who was suffering from a wound, heard Visakha-nandi's laughter and was diagnosed. When his life force was exhausted, he became a deva in Maha-Shukra heaven, where his father's younger brother was born.
He lived there for sixteen oceans of years, enjoying divine pleasures with groups of goddesses and apsaras. Then he was cast down to earth. In the Jambudvipa, in the Bharat Kshetra, in a beautiful country, in the city of Podanapura, there was a king named Prajapati. His beloved queen, Mrigavati, had a son named Tripṛṣṭha, born after a auspicious dream.
His paternal uncle, who had also been cast down from Maha-Shukra heaven, was born to the king's other wife, Jayavati, and was named Vijaya.
Visakha-nandi wandered through the cycle of existence for a long time. In the city of Alaka, on the northern slopes of the Vijaya mountain, the king Mayuragriva, through the ripening of his good karma, had a son named Ashvagriva, a conqueror of enemies.
These two, Vijaya and Tripṛṣṭha, were the first Balabhadra and Narayana. Their bodies were eighty bows tall, and their lifespan was eighty-four lakh years. Vijaya's body was white like a conch shell, and Tripṛṣṭha's body was blue like an Indra-nila gem. They both killed the arrogant Ashvagriva and became lords of the earth, adorned with three continents.
They both ruled over sixteen thousand crowned kings, Vidyadharas, and Vyantara devas.
Tripṛṣṭha had seven treasures protected by the devas: a bow, a conch shell, a discus, a club, a sword, a spear, and a mace.
Balabhadra also had four treasures: a mace, a garland of gems, a club, and a plow. These were like right faith, right knowledge, right conduct, and austerity, which increase prosperity.
Tripṛṣṭha had sixteen thousand wives, headed by Swayamprabha. Balabhadra's wives were similar, and his beloved was Manahpriya.