Kansvaho

Author(s): Rama Paniwada, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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fight, and at last Rāma and Krsna killed their opponents and routed the wrestlers who tried to overpower them (iii. 27-51). When that wicked Kaṁsa expressed his intention to imprison. them all, Krsna attacked him, felled him on the ground, and finished him to death with all vehemence. The naughty brothers of Kaṁsa tco were killed. By way of congratulations gods showered from heaven flowers on their heads (iii. 52-60).
The slaying of Karisa by Kışņa was a matter of relief to the whole world. Thereafter people became happy ; ladies could move about freely ; youths had no hindrance in their sports; and lastly even voluptuaries got a good deal of liberty (iv. 1-5). Kịşma appointed Ugrasena as the king and released his parents from the prison house. Both Balarāma and Kșşņa paid respects to their parents who blessed them and embraced them with filial affection (iv. 6-9).
Then Akrūra comes, pays respects to Vasudeva and his wife, and then narrates the various events in the childhood of the princes : the transference of child Krsna to the bed of a cowherdess on a cloudy night when the river Yamunā became easily fordable ; destruction of Pūtanā by Krşna by sucking her blood ; defeat and death of Tịnāvarta who had assumed the form of whirlwind ; Yaśodā's binding of Kțşņa to the mortar which he pulled through and uprooted a couple of Arjuna trees; destruction of Bakāsura and Aghasura ; humiliation of Brahman by Kışma ; different sports of Kışņa in Vịndāvana etc. ; destruction of Dhenuka by Balarama ; Krşna's dancing on the hood of Kāliya serpent and consequent banishment of it ; his drinking. of conflagration ; smashing of Pralamba by Krşna : Krşņa deprives Gopis of their garments ; refusal of the food by the sacrificial priests but the same respectfully offered by their pious. wives; the worship of Gopas diverted from Indra to Govardhana ; consequent rain-deluge was brought by Indra but all the