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occasion, people do not mind, in fact, the heaviness of the price (paid) in (a transaction of] exchanges.
14. Verily this is that same naughty (boy) who, failing to get the satisfaction of his ) thirst, drank, merely by sucking her breast, even the life of Pūtanā that suckled him.
15. Indeed this is he by whom, (when) staying in Nanda's house, the Daitya hero, Tțgāvarta (by name), was made nonexistent; and ( thus ] that (Trạāvarta who had assumed the form of a whirlwind or ] Cakraväta (was made to be) a Cakravāka bird in the lake of Yama's realm.
16. Indeed here is he, the thief of cow-products, who was praised thus by jocular gods: “Let him steal (i.e., put down) all the vanity ( gavva=garva-) of the enemies: but why does he steal the dairy-products ( gavva= gavya ) of the cowherds who are his relatives ? ".
17. It is that very person who releases from bondage the people that are bound down by illusion, he himself, the noble one, was fastened to a mortar by his mother: indeed here he is.
18. O Śauri, formerly it was only one Arjuna, possessing one thousand arms, that was routed by Bhārgava (i. e., Paraśurāma ); [but] by this ( Krsna ) a pair of Arjunas, that had more than one thousand arms [ in the form ) of long branches, was broken down.
19. In fact Bakāsura, that tried, as it is said, to overpower him who was grazing his hundreds of cows, perished himself like a mass of darkness (that tries to overpower) the thousand-beamed sım ( who spreads his hundreds of rays in the space ).
20. That wretched Aghāsura, that was himself lying assuming the form of a boa snake, was killed by him who, standing in (its) stomach, enlarged himself, just as a person of Karmic flaw (is killed) by the disease of spleen enlargement (which arising in the
stomach becomes developed). · 21. He who began ( lit., begins ) to swing round this boy on the strength of māyā (i. e., miracle) was himself deceived; in fact
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