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CHAPTER ÉLEVEN to kill the enemy-army. Hearing the lion's-roar, Krşņa ran up, broke the double-doors with a kick, and entered the city, like the submarine fire the ocean. Taking the iron-bound club, Kșsņa killed the enemy-soldiers; and said to King Acchadanta who was submissive: “Our strength of arm has not gone any place! Villain, what have you done? Humble, enjoy your kingdom. You are freed from this crime."
Death of Krşņa (122–165) After saying this, they went to a garden outside the city and ate. They set out to the south and came to the forest Kaušāmba. Kļşņa became extremely thirsty from drinking wine, from salty food, from heat and fatigue, from grief, and the destruction of accumulated merit. Krsna said to Bala: “My palate dries up from thirst. I am not able to go to this forest, though it is full of shade-trees.”
Balabhadra said: “I shall go for water, brother. You stay here, resting under a tree, on guard.” Putting one foot on his knee, covering himself with a yellow garment, Hari went to sleep under a tree on the road. Rāma said again, “O brother, dearer than life, while I am gone, do not be careless for a moment.” Looking up, he said: “Goddesses of the forest, my younger brother is under your care. Dearer than the whole world, he must be protected." With these words, he went for water.
Jarā's son came there, a hunter, carrying a bow, dressed in a tiger skin, wearing a long beard. Roaming for hunting, he saw Kțşņa like that and with the idea that he was a deer, Jāreya shot him in the sole of the foot with a sharp arrow. Getting up quickly, Kșşņa said: “I, without any misdeed on my part, have been wounded by an arrow in the sole of the foot by a trick by some one who did not speak. I have never before killed any one, my family and name being unknown. So let your Honor tell your family and name."
Standing in the trees, he said: “I am the son of the Daśārha, Vasudeva, moon to the ocean of the Hari-line; and of Jarā.
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