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who did not get up, on his shoulder and wandered over mountains, forests, et cetera. Carrying Krsna's body, worshipping it daily with flowers, et cetera, Bala passed six months, bewitched by affection for his brother. While he was roaming in the same places, the rainy season began. Siddhartha, who had become a god, saw him by clairvoyance.
He thought: "Oh! My brother, devoted to his brother, is carrying Kṛṣṇa dead. I shall enlighten him. He asked me previously to enlighten him in case of a calamity." After this reflection, he made a chariot of stone coming down a mountain. After descending from a rough mountain, it broke in pieces on level ground. The god, assuming the form of a farmer, began to put it together. Bala said to him, "Foolish man, why do you try to repair the chariot, which has gone to pieces on level ground after coming down from a rough mountain?' The god said: "One who was not killed in a thousand fights, has died without a fight. When he can live, then my chariot can be repaired."
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The god began to plant lotus-plants on stone. Bala said: Does a lotus-bed grow on stone? The god replied, "When your younger brother becomes alive, then these lotuses will grow." Going ahead of him a little, the god sprinkled a burnt tree. Bala said, "Does a burnt tree grow, even if sprinkled? The god replied to him, When the corpse on your shoulder becomes alive, then this tree will grow.
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Assuming the form of a cowherd, the god began to throw fresh durvā in the mouth of dead cows like in the mouths of living cows. Balabhadra said to him, "When will these cows that have become skeletons eat the durva you have given them, foolish man?" The god said, When your younger brother becomes alive, then these cows will eat the grass, look you." Rāma reflected: "Is my younger brother really dead, that these talk in this way-one by one-with one accord? Knowing his thought, the god at once assumed the form of Siddhartha, appeared before him, and said: I am Siddhartha, your charioteer. At that time, I became a mendicant, died,
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