pieces." Then he rose, and taking up his weapon, the Kel,* he 

 placed it on the bank. The Jumna was exceedingly alarmed and 

 trembled with fear, and, appearing before him, said, " O Balha- 

 dur ! thou Avatar of Seshanaga, who has the earth on his head, to 

 thee I bow with reverence. Thou art Creeshna ! and before thee, 

 as Creeshna, I now appear : do with me as seems good unto thee." 

 Thus did the Jumna humble itself before Ram, who then became 

 appeased, and taking up his KEL, went back to Bindreben. Then 

 Varuna Deva presented him with a Neelamber, and a precious 

 chain, and a string of pearls. Thus did Balhadur remain two 

 months, with all manner of satisfaction, in Bindreben. 



Nared one day felt himself extremely perplexed when he con- 

 sidered that Creeshna should be called Bhagavat-Perebrahme, and 

 yet that he should be so much attached to women. Again he re- 

 flected that, whereas, a man has more than enough with one wife, 

 how could Creeshna conduct himself with 16,000? Does he enjoy 

 them in rotation, or by his power and might, has he all of them al- 

 ways with him ? This Nared determined to see for himself, and 

 learn the truth ; accordingly he went to Dwaraka. On arriving at 

 the skirts of the town he was delighted with the sight of the gardens 

 full of flowers in fresh bloom ; and round all the environs were 

 houses for devotees, which added beauty to the city like amulets 

 against malignant eyes tied round the arm. Learned Brahmins 

 were every where chanting the Vedas, like intoxicated bees buzzing 

 around aromatic Nenuphar. Geese and Sares's (called by tts Cyrus's) 

 adorned the banks of the water, and Lotos's beautified its surface. 

 He beheld houses for 300,000 men, all of lofty architecture and 



KEL means a scythe, i. e. the blade of it, the third Ram being considered, in India, as the 

 patron of agriculture. Cyrus is, in the same manner, said to have cut the River Gyndes into 

 small portions, out of revenge for one of the horses sacred to the sun having been drowned in it. 

 The one story is probably a copy of the other. 



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