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king Padmanabha repulsed and routed the five Pandavas to the four quarters in no time, with their excellent emblems, flags, and banners, fallen down, crushed, and destroyed. Then the five Pandavas, being repulsed and routed by king Padmanabha, and with all their ensigns etc. razed to the ground..., having no energy, and finding it impossible to hold their own (against Padmanabha), went back to Kṛṣṇa. Then Kṛṣṇa asked the five Pandavas:-"O B., how did you engage yourself in fight with king Padmanabha"? Then the five Pandavas replied to him :-"Sire, after we got your permission, we rode in the chariots, fully equipped...etc.,(and) marched against Padmanabha,...upto... were routed'. Then Krna said to them "O B., if you had said, 'we shall (defeat Padmanabha), Padmanabha shall never defeat us',and then fought against him, (i.e. with such a determination), then Padmanabha could never have routed you,...with your ensigns and banners razed to the ground. So now behold, O B.,I shall fight king Padmanabha with the determination that 'I shall be victorious, and not Padmanabha; and with these words he marched against king Padmanabha, and took (lit. touched) his Pancajany a conch, white like cow's milk, or a necklace (of white flowers), resembling the Mallikā, Sinduvāra, Kunda, and the moon; it was a cause of great rejoicing to his own army, but was fatal and destructive to the hostile forces, and Kṛṣṇa blew it with his mouth (lit. filled it with air by his mouth). Then, one-third of the army of Padmanabha was routed and repulsed by (merely) the sound of that conch (of Kṛṣṇa). Then Kṛṣua took his bow, strung it (with the bow.string), and twanged it. Then another onethird of the army of Padmanabha was routed and repulser by the (mere) twanging of the bow (of Kṛṣṇa). [P.44] Then king Padmanabha, with only a third of his forces remainig, being weakened, powerless, without any force, with no strength or manly effort left, and finding it impossible to hold his own, speedily and hastily returned to Aparakamkā; and having entered it, he closed all the gates of the city and waited for being besieged. Then Kṛṣṇa marched against Aparakamka, drew in his chariot, alighted from it, and transformed himself by a magical mutation, and created by magic a Lion
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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