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BIRTH OF RĀMA, KRŞŅA, AND ARIȘȚANEMI elders saying, “Stop! This is no business of yours with our cows and butter, ” Kșşņa challenged the bull. Raising his horns, his face screwed up with anger, his tail erect, Arișța attacked Govinda. Hari seized him quickly by the horns, twisted his neck, made him breathless, and killed Arişța. “Arişta, who was like Death, has been killed,” delighted, everywhere the herdsmen worshipped Krşņa, thirsty for the sight of him.
One day while Kęşņa was playing, Kansa's colt, Keśin, came with evil intentions like Kināśa, open-mouthed. Biting the calves, kicking the pregnant cows with his hooves, neighing in a terrifying manner, he was threatened severely by Krşņa. Twirling his arm which resembled a thunderbolt, Hari put it in the mouth, cruel with saw-like teeth, stretched out, of him wishing to bite. He split his face with his arm (pushed) down to his neck, so that he was lifeless, as if eager for the company of Arişța. One day Kșşņa, long-armed, killed easily Kansa's donkey and goat, whose strength was cruel, coming there.
When he heard that they had been killed, in order to test his enemy thoroughly, Kansa set up Śārnga in the assembly under pretext of a pājā. He made his sister, the maiden Satyabhāmā, its attendant, always near, and opened the festival. Kansa had it proclaimed, “I shall give goddess-like Satyabhāmā to the one who strings Sārnga.” Hearing that, kings came there even from afar, but no one was able to string the bow.
Hearing about it, Anādhşști, the son of Madanāvega and Vasudeva, thinking himself a hero, got into a swift chariot. Crossing to Gokula, he saw there Rāma and Kțşņa together. He stopped one night and entertained them, talking. At dawn he got into the chariot, dismissed his younger brother Rāma, and set out, taking Krşņa as a guide on the road to Mathurā. His chariot caught on a banyan on the road filled with trees and Anādhșşți was not able to free it. Kṛṣṇa came there on foot, pulled up the banyan easily, threw it aside, and after that made a straight chariot-road. Then Anādhțști, delighted at seeing his strength, got down, embraced him, and put him in the chariot.
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