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lence, had carried away every rajah's daughter who he had heard 

 was beautiful, so that each day when any of those ladies came 

 before him, he beheld her, indeed with his eyes, but immediately 

 thought no more of her. Perasere, the Reyshee, hath observed 

 that he had collected 16,000 of these girls, and other Reyshees say 

 they exceeded that number. Creeshna, after slaying Bhoom, entered 

 his house, and at last came to these young ladies, who, having 

 heard of Creeshna's miracles amid all the calamities of their cap- 

 tivity, had rested their whole reliance upon him for their release, 

 and had heard his person described ; so that, the moment they saw 

 him, they conceived him to be the deliverer of the world. They 

 all respectfully rose up and most submissively addressed him, 

 praying for relief ; adding that, though they were not Hooris, they 

 were desirous at least to be the slaves of his palace, and wives, 

 and the very Dasees (slaves) of his Dasees. Creeshna sent these 

 16,000 girls, and prodigious wealth, and the elephant Iravet with 

 four teeth, and 6,400 white elephants, and besides them very many 

 other elephants and carriages without number, and horses of the 

 first race, to Dwaraka ; and himself, with Seete-Bhavani, pro- 

 ceeded to Eendra-Pooree, whither Eendra had gone after the 

 slaughter of Bhoom- Assoor. Eendra, with all his thousand eyes, 

 could not be satisfied with beholding Creeshna, but saluted him 

 with mingled joy and reverence, and prostrated himself seven times 

 before him. Creeshna gave the ear-rings and necklace which he 

 had received from Bhoom's mother to the mother of Eendra. Een- 

 dra, with his hands joined before him, said he had brought the tree of 

 Pareejatek according to order, and he laid it on Garoori's back ; 

 so, when Creeshna returned to Dwaraka, the tree was planted in 

 Seete-Bhavani's court. Thither came the bees of Soorg attracted 

 by the blossoms of Pareejatek ; and Creeshna in an instant, mul- 

 tiplying his own person into 16,000, went to the palace of each, 



