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at hearing that, Nemi came there. Kṛṣṇa, dissimulating, hastily seated Lord Nemi on a priceless throne and said with respect: Why did you blow Pāñcajanya just now, brother? All the world is terrified even now by its sound." Nemi said, "Very well"; and Kṛṣṇa, wishing to test his strength of arm himself, said to him respectfully: "No one but me was able to blow Pañcajanya. Now I am pleased that you have blown it. To please me especially, show me your strength of arm. Compete with me in a wrestling-match, honor-giver!" He said, "Let it be so," and the brothers, eminent heroes, went to the armory, attended by the princes. Nemi, compassionate by nature, thought: "How is Kṛṣṇa to be defeated-by my chest, arm, or foot? I shall do so that he will not suffer injury and will know the strength of my arm." He said to Janardana: "The fight of vulgar persons is often full of rolling on the ground. So may our fight consist only of bending each other's arm." Vişņu agreed to that and raised his arm, long as a tree branch; Nemi bent it like a lotusstem. In the same way Neminatha lifted his own left arm and Viṣṇu clung to it with all his strength, like a monkey to a tree. The pillar of Nemi's arm was not bent in the least by Visņu, like the peak of a great mountain by a forest-elephant.
Releasing the pillar of Nemi's arm, Sārngabhṛt, concealing his embarrassment, embraced Neminatha, and said: Just as Rāma considers the world as straw compared with my strength, so I think the universe is straw compared with your strength, brother." With these words, Vişņu dismissed Nemi and said to Sirin:
"Brother, you have seen our brother's strength, the best in three worlds. As I, an ardhacakrin, was on his arm like a bird on a tree, I think no cakrin nor Indra is equal to him in strength. Will he not conquer all of Bharata by such strength? Will our younger brother remain thus (as he is)?”
Rāma said: "Just as he is known to be superior to a cakrin in strength, so he is characterized by the personification of tranquillity, indifferent to sovereignty." As Rāma said this,
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