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CHAPTER SEVEN a great cry, “Ha! Ha!” arose in all the army of the Yadus. The youngest Kaunteya, (Svetavāhana), jumped between and fought Jarāsandha who wished to attack Rāma. Kļşņa saw Rāma's wretched state and, angered, his lips trembling, killed Jarāsandha's sixty-nine sons who were in front of him.
“Rāma here will certainly die. What is the use of Kirīțin (Arjuna) being killed? I will kill Kșşņa.” With these thoughts, the King of Magadha attacked him. Then a rumor spread everywhere, “Kșşņa has really been killed.” Just then Mātali said to Ariştanemi: “Of what importance is Jarāsandha compared with you, Sri Nemi, Lord of Three Worlds, like a young elephant compared with a śarabha? He, disregarded by you, is making a dearth of Yādavas now. Show at least, Lord of the World, an exploit of your own easily accomplished. Even if the Lord is averse to any censurable act from birth, yet he should not disregard his own family being destroyed by enemies."
Spoken to like this, without anger Nemi took in his hand the conch Paurandara, whose sound exceeded that of a thundercloud, and blew it. By its sound filling the space between heaven and earth, the enemy were terrified and the Yadu-army was restored again, able to fight. At Nemi's command Mātali whirled the chariot in the battle like a circle of fire-brands, resembling a whirlpool in the ocean. Like a new cloud with a drawn rainbow, the Lord rained streams of arrows on all sides, making the enemy tremble. The Lord destroyed the banners of some, of some the bows, of some the chariots, and of some the crowns. The enemy-soldiers became unable even to look at, to say nothing of striking, the Lord who resembled a sun at the end of the world.
The Master alone killed a lac of crowned kings. What are mountains compared with the ocean enraged? The Master, Lord of Three Worlds, did not kill Jarāsandha, sparing him with the idea, “ The Prativişņu must be killed only by Vişņu." Śri Nemi continued blocking the enemy, having the chariot whirled, and the Yadu-soldiers fought again, their
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