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place was perfectly dry, started back, and extended the golden 

 wand, which he held in his hand, to explore if it really were wa- 

 ter before him. Bheema at this instantly burst out into a loud 

 laughter, nor could all Judishter's authority restrain him, so lu- 

 dicrous was the spectacle. Doorjoodhen was exceedingly ashamed 

 and affronted, and went away from the council in great wrath. 

 All this was Creeshna's sport ; but, as it was his intention to put 

 to death altogether in one place a number of those wicked tyrants, 

 by whose weight the earth was oppressed, he for the present over- 

 looked it, while Doorjoodhen, by his secret destination, grew 

 daily more inveterate in his malicious and treacherous designs.* 



At the time that Rajah Seesoopal went to Gundenpoor to marry 

 Rokemenee, and when Creeshna stole her aAvay from the midst of 

 all the assembled rajahs, among the number was Rajah Sal, a parti- 

 cular friend of Seesoopal, who swore, that if he did not root out 

 the very name of the Yadavas, he would be no more a Khettree. 

 He too was one of those who, with Seesoopal, pursued Creeshna, 

 and who, on dire experience of Creeshna's might, turned back and 

 fled, glad to escape with his life. But this oath always remained at 

 the bottom of his mind ; and, when Creeshna slew Seesoopal, Sal 

 was again exceedingly irritated, and felt the weight of his former 

 oath like a mill-stone round his neck, esteeming life itself no longer 

 tolerable, if he could not revenge his friend's death. But how to 



* This incident is differently related in Baldseus, with the addition of a most cutting speech 

 to the eldest son of the blind and feeble monarch of Hindostan, who, in fact, by that blindness, 

 was legally incapacitated from reigning ; and the throne of which, therefore, by right belonged 

 to the oppressed Yadavas. " It had happened some time before, that Doorjoodhen, being in 

 Judishter's palace, looked into Dropeda's apartment, which, being paved with glass, (a thing 

 he never had seen before, he look it for water, and would not venture to go in. Dropeda, per- 

 ceiving his error, exclaimed, ' How ! are the sons like the father ! Is the whole family BUND ?' 

 which put Doorjoodhen into such a rage, that he swore he would revenge it the first opportu- 

 nity." Baldaeus, p. 881. 



