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28. Moreover, this ( Kyspa ) bestows shelter from Garuda on the serpent ( Kāliya ) whose vanity was completely gone: though good people, when displeased, are ( dangerous like ) poison, still they are indeed ( beneficial like ) nectar, when pleased.
29. Then this ( Krsņa ), who is dark like sapphire, being decorated with clusters of Nāga garlands that are offered to him by a party of Nāga girls, looks like the clear sky with the stars.
30. Further, when bands of cowherds and cows were asleep, the lightening-like blazing forest-fire that was breaking out is drunk by him at once: every danger is possible in the case of the eminent ( people ) of this world.
31. Kämapāla ( i. e., Balarāma), who was guarding the flock of cows, getting angry, crushed with the fist [that] wicked Pralamba, a Daitya, a dependant of Karsa, who feigned to be a cowherd and who intended ( to play some ] trechery.
32. It is said, whenever any maidens sport in the waters of Yamunā, that Vasudeva steals their clothes, as if they were their clear hearts.
33. When, at a celebrated sacrifice ('held ) in a forest, he was turned off by the sacrificial priests who were asked for food, he gets tasteful and sweet food, along with respects, from their devoted wives; and he bestows liberation on them.
34. Diverting the devotion of Nanda and others from Purandara (i. e., Indra), he directs (it), in fact, towards the great mountain (Govardhana ), just as the day turning away the attention of the bees from the bed of night-blooming lotuses ( directs it) towards the plot of day-blooming lotuses.
35. Immediately digging up the great mountain Govardhana, making an umbrella [ of it), and taking (it) in his lotuslike hand, this boy Gopāla stops at once the rushing shower which falls down in great abundance from the interior of the array of clouds that are thundering and ablaze with lightening and which clearly per. vades the surface of the earth.
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