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since she herself and all her family placed their reliance solely on 

 Bhagavan. Akroor comforted her as well as he could, and took 

 an early opportunity of remonstrating with Dhreetrarashtra on the 

 glaring injustice of his own and Doorjoodhen's proceedings. 

 Dhreetrarashtra answered, that he felt the force of Akroor's argu- 

 ments, but that his heart was blackened by the intense affection 

 which he bore his children, and could not assume the colour of his 

 good advice, which, like lightning, had, for a single moment, 

 flashed upon the obscurity of his mind ; that he knew, however, 

 Bhagavan had been born for the purpose of relieving the burthens 

 of the earth, and for the protection of his friends, and paid him all 

 due reverence. Akroor, after having given his advice to Dhree- 

 trarashtra, and hearing his answer, took leave of him, andKoontee, 

 and the Paifidoos, and returned to Mathura. 



Akroor, on his arrival from Hastanapoor, communicated ail he 

 had heard to Creeshna, and immediately that all-wise Being re- 

 solved within his mind what should be done. Now the two wives 

 of Cansa, Asep and Peranet, daughters of Rajah Jarasandha, mo- 

 narch of the kingdom of Maghada, had continued in a state of the 

 most profound grief ever since the death of their husband, and went 

 weeping and wailing to their father. Jarasandha was exceedingly 

 grieved at the intelligence, and, being moved with extreme pity 

 for his daughters, swore an oath and performed sacrifice that, if he 

 did not slay every one of the Yadavas in revenge for the death of 

 his son-in-law, the guilt of the murder of Cansa should lie upon 

 him. Accordingly he levied an army of three Kshouheenees,* 



* This is the word which often occurs written in Mr. Halhed's manuscript ; but, in Ferishta, 

 it is written COHEEN, and is there said to be a military body, "consisting: of twenty-one 

 thousand eight hundred and sevtenry elephants of war, an equal number of chariots, six thousand 

 six hundred and ten horsemen, and one hundred and nine thousand three hundred and fifty 



foot ! ! !" Credat Judaus. 



