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the guards, mounted on the fleetest horses, beheld the scene with 

 amazement and stupefaction ; and, when the news came to See- 

 soopal, and Sal, and Denteebektree, and Poorende, they were 

 overwhelmed with grief and vexation. But Jarasandha was more 

 inflamed with anger than all, and, in his rage, exclaimed, " This 

 is surely most astonishing, that, in the presence of so many crown- 

 ed heads as are here assembled, this cowherd should make so bold 

 an effort, and succeed in taking away Rokemenee." 



The several rajahs, however, immediately set out and pursued 

 Creeshna with their respective armies ; and Creeshna and Ram, 

 aware of that pursuit, drew in their reins, and waited for them in 

 serene composure. Then all at once began to rain a storm of ar- 

 rows upon Creeshna and Ram, which Creeshna parried with his 

 arrow ; but Rokemenee, who had never seen a battle, was exceed- 

 ingly terrified at the shower of arrows that fell around her, and 

 clung close to Bhagavan ; Avho bid her be of good courage, and 

 observe how quickly he would slay them all. Balhadur took his 

 weapons, the Kel and Moosel, and with them slew the elephants, 

 broke the chariots, and levelled with the dust both horse and horse- 

 men, while, with his foot, he spurned all the infantry to death. 

 Only Jarasandha, and Seesoopal, and Sal, and Denteebektree, 

 and Poorende, remained alive, and attempted to save themselves 

 by flight ; but Creeshna caught Seesoopal alive, and, after much 

 scoffing and ironically declaiming on the fickleness of fortune, ob- 

 served, that he himself, after defeating Jarasandha seventeen 

 times, was worsted the eighteenth ; although he gloried not in vic- 

 tory nor despaired in defeat ; and even now he did not vaunt, 

 though he had carried away Rokemenee from so numerous an as- 

 semblage of monarchs. After these bitter taunts he gave him his 

 liberty, and Seesoopal slunk away with downcast and sorrowful 

 looks, while the Yadavas acquired prodigious booty from their 



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