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and, by joy and pleasure, dissipated the grief and pining of them 

 all. Those young and modest creatures knew not at first how to 

 behave, but hung down their heads with mingled shame and bash^ 

 fulness Creeshna saw their confusion, and taught them how to 

 look and how to laugh ; he behaved with such kindness to them, 

 as greatly increased their affection for him ; and, in a short time, 

 instructed them in all the rules and ceremonies of the haram, and 

 in all such qualifications as are expected from their sex and con- 

 dition. 



The Creator of the world, who had come into existence for the 

 protection of the Devatas and his devotees, for the nourishment 

 of milch cows, and for the destruction of Cansa, had built Dwaraka 

 with unspeakable magnificence. All the walls Avere so studded 

 with brilliant jewels that there was no need of lamps in the night. 

 The canopies to all the houses were suspended by strings of pearl, 

 whose lustre illuminated earth and heaven ; and, by the odour of 

 the flowers of Pareejatek, the courts and gardens of Dwaraka were 

 all scented. To describe the full splendor of Dwaraka would be 

 an endless labour. One day Creeshna was sitting in his magnifi- 

 cent palace among those who conceived themselves his relations ; 

 one his father, another his son, another his brother, &c. &c. ; and 

 Rokemenee, dressed in all her richest jewels and choicest habili- 

 ments, exhibited the full display of her beauty, when Creeshna, to 

 try her temper and give her charms a new mode of lustre under the 

 influence of anger, began jocosely to taunt her with having refused 

 so excellent a match as Seesoopal, and for having been so forward 

 as to send her Brahmin to him at a time that he had made her no 

 advances, and certainly was not in love with her. In this style of 

 keen but good-humoured satire he tormented her so much, that at 

 last she turned pale and descended from her seat: she stood for 

 some time before him in the utmost shame and distress, unable to 



