and all the Yadavas. While Judishter was thus performing the Pooja 

 to Shree-Bhagavan, it rained flowers from the sky, and Devatas 

 uttered praises, and men proffered Aservad, for his sake. But 

 Rajah Seesoopal, son of Rajah Demkhook, burnt with grief and 

 anger, and, with fiery eyes, starting up from his seat, made a long 

 philippic against Creeshna ; first inveighing against the Brahmins 

 and others for listening to the proposition of one of the youngest 

 in the assembly ; then adding, " that he did not advise the Pooja 

 to be addressed to himself, but to some of the noble persons or 

 learned Reyshees, of whom there were many present infinitely 

 more worthy than the object of their choice : that they did not 

 offer the Ahoot Howm to the fire and the Zennardars, but brought 

 it to this crow (alluding to his black colour) : that the person who 

 forsook the Vedas, to choose a different religion for himself, was 

 not to be ranked among their objects of veneration : that they must 

 have heard that the Yadavas were under the Srap (curse) of a 

 holy Reyshee, which denounced they should never wear the dia- 

 dem ; how then could they be addressed with Pooja ? That a man 

 who could quit such holy places as Mathura, Gaya, and other 

 Teerthes, to make a settlement on the sea-side, and establish there 

 a seminary of plunder and robbery, from which to dispatch ban- 

 ditti to other kingdoms and provinces, could not be allowed to pos- 

 sess any sort of nobility." In these, and other words of a similar 

 malignant purport, did Seesoopal vent his rage, while Creeshna, 

 by signs, prevented all the persons present from interrupting him. 

 However, his insolence was no longer to be borne, and most of 

 them got up and retired to one side, as not thinking it decent or 

 worthy of them to hear such abuse of Creeshna, nor choosing to 

 participate in the crime incurred thereby. Bheema and his bro- 

 thers, rising hastily, seized their arms, and attempted to kill See- 

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