missions, entreated to know his commands. Creeshna demanded, 

 as before, the two sons of his tutor Sendeepen ; and, by this com- 

 mand of Perebrahme, these two young men became alive again, 

 and Dherme Rajah presented them to Creeshna, who, with Ram, 

 immediately took them to Sendeepen, and, presenting them to him, 

 said, " O Gooroo ! demand of us something yet more, for our wish 

 is to serve thee." But Sendeepen answered, " O Ram and Creeshna! 

 I am delighted with you to the soul; nor have I more to ask, but 

 receive at least my blessing ; and may the sciences you have learned 

 of me remain for ever fresh in your memories \" Creeshna and 

 Ram then taking leave of their tutor set off from Avengtee, and 

 soon came to Mathura, and the people there received them like 

 lost wealth restored. 



Creeshna having, as we have seen, thus rapidly learnt the whole 

 circle of sciences from Sendeepen, and being returned to Mathura, 

 on a certain day called to him his kinsman Oodhoo, and, taking 

 him aside, requested of him to go to Bindreben, and bear his salu- 

 tations to Yasodha and all the Gopas, and particularly to the Gopias 

 whom, most of all, his absence grievously afflicted; announce to 

 them his intended return the instant his affairs permitted, and, in 

 the mean time, until they could obtain his personal presence, to 

 exhort them to be constantly employed in YUG, which is his spiri- 

 tual presence. Oodhoo, having accordingly received Creeshna's 

 instructions, set out for Bindreben on the following morning, and 

 arrived the same evening. He found all the Gopas and Gopias 

 sitting in a melancholy attitude, and meditating on Creeshna; the 

 Zennardars at prayer, and the secular persons engaged in charity 

 and other pious works, to obtain his presence. Nanda carried 

 Oodhoo to his own house, and there refreshing him after his jour- 

 ney, anxiously asked him the news of Creeshna, of Mathura, of 

 Vasudeva, and Devaci, and whether Creeshna meant to keep his 



