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TRANSLATION, IV
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Viridica (i. e., god Brahman), who fell in the deep ocean of mâyā, sought shelter of Kavaladdha-pāņi (i. e., Krsna ).
22. Indeed many days were spent by him in fondling sports with parties of cowherd boys at Vrndāvana, on the pleasant banks of Yamunā and on the peak of Govardhana mountain which resembles a palace.
23. By this Bala (rāma) was forcibly shaken the proud heart itself of groups of demons like Dhenuka (who assumed the form of a) Gardabha and others under the disguise of palm-grove; under the disguise of the copious water of its fruits the cause of the people's sorrow was drunk up; and under the disguise of the lives of the enemy the burden of the earth was removed effectively.
24. It is reported that Krsņa jocularly addressed Räma thus : "Well, while grazing the dhenuka (i. e., cattle ) in order to protect them, why do you kill Dhenuka (i. e., the demon by that name) ? How can we rely on you?"
25. On one occasion, the Nanda prince, like the autumn, makes pure the water of Yamunā which was dreadful with the columns (lit., creepers) of the poisonous exhalations of the snake Kāliya like the sky with the ( masses of ) dark clouds.
26. Indeed this Dāmodara, who is comparable to the morning sun, who has put on the yellow garment that looks like reddish sunlight, and who is extraordinary with the merits of enlightening the lotuses ( in the form] of the eyes of the series of jubilant gods, began to dance quickly by simultaneously putting (both) the feet on the peaks (in the form] of the hoods of the mountain [in the form] of that great serpent.
27. The boy Gopāla dances producing a tinkling sound of the anklets, bending the hood of the serpent by the pressure of (his). sproutlike feet, with the creeperlike girdle becoming gradually joose and with swarms of bees hovering round the hair which was attractive with a circle of waving peacock feathers.
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