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thy favour is more particularly extended towards the Pandoos than 

 others, certainly thou wilt have the goodness to go thither. O 

 Natha ! he who lives in remembrance of thee, be he prince or beg- 

 gar, assuredly obtains Peremekete, for thy name is equivalent to 

 happiness." Thus did Nared utter Creeshna's praises. Creeshna 

 spoke kindly to him in return, and, calling Oodhoo, asked him 

 his advice if it were not right that he should go to Hastanapoor, 

 since the Pandoos had already commenced the Raisoo-Yug in 

 reliance upon him : and, since it was time that those rajahs, who, 

 being prisoners to Jarasandha, had put themselves under his pro- 

 tection, should be released; in short, whether he thought the 

 journey could not be so contrived as at once to accomplish the two 

 desirable objects. 



Oodhoo, by his prophetic spirit, knew what was the wish of the 

 principal among the Yadavas, and therefore he answered, " That 

 certainly there was great difficulty in procuring and arranging the 

 necessaries for a Raisoo-Yug, and that Judishter ought to have first 

 weighed his own strength, and have considered how it would be 

 possible for him to reduce to subjection the rajahs of all the eight 

 sides round him, as well as to have consulted his great support, 

 Creeshna, on the subject ; but that his present conduct proceeded 

 entirely from his firm reliance and full confidence in Creeshna's 

 friendship, who would indisputably interfere, and bring his expec- 

 tations to a fortunate issue. He therefore counselled Creeshna to 

 go to Hastanapoor, whence the distance was not very great to Jara- 

 sandha's kingdom; who, in consequence of his violence and 

 strength, which surpasses that of 10,000 elephants, thinks no one 

 on earth able to cope with him, yet Bheema is full as strong as Ja- 

 rasandha. He advised, therefore, that Bheema, should present 

 himself in the habit of a Brahmin, and demand alms of Jarasandha, 

 who, being himself a Brahmin, would not fail to say he would give 



