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15. Hari (i. e., Krsna) is addressed thus by Kamsa's messenger whose character is pure and whose head is bent [respectfully] : 'To have an excellent and agreeable audience with yourself is the special purpose of our arrival'.
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16. You whom search for long even the great ascetics that have cast off worldly] attachment, that travel along the path of the Vedanta [philosophy] and that labour hard in the practice of Yoga-exercises such as self-restraint etc., have been visible to me (lit., have come within the range of my sight) through my good luck.
17. Victorious are my eyes by which is being tasted (i. e., seen ) your face which is an unique abode of the qualities of well-formed beauty, which is similar to the lucid full-moon and which is sparkling with a smile.
18. O Madhava, that the festival of seeing thy face eye to eve is prohibited by your maternal uncle who is, as it were, a mass of sin spreading out, is indeed a perversity of fate.
19. Indeed, fate is pleased with me now; indeed, there is a great accrual oi merit to me that today I have been despatched to you on an important mission by that very king of Bhojas.
20. O Madhava, listen what that maternal uncle of yours, who is ever agitated by fear, aims at: now he wishes to cheat even you who bestow on the world very great prosperity indeed.
21. Verily that miscreant prepares himself now to crush you to destroy whom, of long arms, Pralamba, Kesin and others were not able.
22. O Lord of the three worlds, that wicked king, seated on the dais, conspires with Kumbhirāja and the Mallas to kill you [after inviting you] with the pretence of bow festival.
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23. Whatever that wicked king told me in private, having called me[to himself ], you hear that as well: "O Akrūra, quickly go to Gokula and further talk to those boys, Rama and Kesava [thus
24. In a big hall at Mathura, guarded by the arms of the king
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