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sparkling in the sea. Select messengers went before and comforted 

 the imprisioned rajahs with assurances that Creeshna was ap- 

 proaching to release them : and Nared, having obtained favour in 

 the sight of Creeshna, returned joyfully home. 



Creeshna set forth in all pomp and splendor from Dwaraka ; and, 

 passing through the kingdom of Soorethe, came to the confines of 

 Meevat. Judishter came out several stages to meet them, taking 

 with him Brahmins learned in the Vedas, and pious Acharyas, 

 with music and singing, to swell the procession, and express his 

 joy at the meeting. Creeshna, as younger than Judishter, would 

 have kissed his feet ; Judishter anticipated his intention, and fell 

 at Creeshna's feet in tears of rapture. In the records of mankind, 

 beauty and loveliness of person are first numbered from Rajah Bali, 

 from Nacul, and Sehedeva ; hence most of the Yadavas came ea- 

 gerly from Dwaraka on purpose to see the two latter. Creeshna, 

 after having saluted the Pandoos, the Brahmins, Acharyas, &c. 

 went forward, surrounded, preceded, and followed, by music and 

 singing. Every inhabitant of Hastanapoor, male and female, re- 

 joiced at his arrival, and crowded the roofs, windows, and doors, 

 to see him enter, and had bedecked all their houses for the triumph. 

 Great crowds stood in the road to receive him, and the women 

 presented him with flowers of five colours as he passed. All the 

 streets were cleansed from dirt and dust, and sprinkled with per- 

 fumed water. The bazars and squares were all new beautified with 

 golden plaster, and odoriferous woods were burning in all the 

 houses. The brilliant jewels which adorned the doors of the Pan- 

 doos shone like lamps, as if they had been placed there for the 

 purpose of shedding their combined lustre on Creeshna. The wo- 

 men all praised and envied the happiness of the eight Nayega, and 

 flocked round Creeshna in adoring multitudes. When Creeshna 

 entered the palace of the Pandoos, Koontee (the mother of three 



