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CHAPTER FIVE
In time they crossed the Kalindi and entered Mathurā. They went to the assembly of the bow to which many kings had come. They saw lotus-eyed Satyabhāmā, like its guardiandeity, near the bow. Looking at eager Kṛṣṇa, Satyabhāmā, wounded by Manobhava's arrow, instantly chose him in her mind as her husband. Anādhṛṣți approached and, as he lifted up the bow, his foot slipped in the mud and he fell to the ground, like a camel. Then Satyabhāmā and the others with wide-opened eyes laughed a little at him with his necklace broken, his crown crushed, and his ear-rings lost.
Unable to endure their laughter, instantly Damodara took up the bow as if it were a garland of flowers and strung it easily. With the curved bow which had great brilliance he looked like a rainy season cloud with a rainbow. Anādhṛṣṭi went to his father's house, left Kesava at the door in the chariot, went inside, and announced to his father, "I alone strung the bow Śārnga, Father, which could not be even touched anywhere by other kings. Vasudeva said harshly, "Go without delay. When Kansa knows that you have strung the bow, he will kill you. " Hearing that, Anadhṛṣṭi left the house in fear and went in haste with Kṛṣṇa to Nanda's cow-station. Taking leave of Rāma and Govinda, he went to Sauryapura.
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There was a rumor that Nanda's son has strung the bow. Distressed by the stringing of the bow, using the festival of the bow as a pretext, Kansa summoned all the wrestlers for a contest. The kings, who had been summoned there, stood on platforms in order to see and their eyes were fixed especially on Kansa placed on a high platform. All his own elder brothers and all his sons, Akrūra, et cetera, had been summoned by Vasudeva who knew Kansa's evil intentions. They were seated on very high platforms by Kansa, who had entertained them, like suns very strong in brilliance.
Hearing that there was a wrestling-match, Kṛṣṇa said to Rāma, "Elder brother, let us go there and see the wrestlingshow. Rāma agreed and said to Yasoda, "Prepare a bath for us, as we intend to go to Mathurā. " Seeing that she was
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