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Brahmin's son, because I had an earnest desire to see you. You 

 have done what was your function to do, and have released the 

 earth overladen with her heavy weight. Your incarnation was for 

 the purpose of illuminating the darkness of the world : both of you 

 are Avatars of Narayen, and have well performed your appointed 

 functions." On beholding these wonders, Arjoon totally forgot 

 every thing that had passed in his mind, and now fully compre- 

 hended that Creeshna was Lord of heaven and earth, and that 

 oil that he saw was HIS FORM and HIS LIGHT. They then took the 

 Brahmin's son away with them, and came back. Arjoon, 

 astonished and amazed, totally laid aside his former presumption, 

 and-felt both Creeshna' s might and his own weakness. The Brah- 

 min, in great joy, received back his son, praising them for the 

 miracles they had wrought and the toils they had undergone. 



One day, in Dwaraka, which is a second Vaicontha, Creeshna 

 was enjoying himself with his relations, and sons, and grand- 

 children, and his 16,000 wives, and all his wealth : his elephants, 

 his horses, his carriages out of number, were arranged in order. 

 In the midst of his golden castle extended his apartments on all the 

 four sides. His gardens were of golden earth, wherein were trees 

 of paradise full of variegated fruits. Peacocks, and cocelas 

 (Indian nightingales), and other birds, were sporting therein. 

 Creeshna on that day was surrounded with his 16,000 wives, AS 

 LIGHTNING WITH A CLOUD, and they gathered innumerable 

 flowers as offerings to Creeshna, like the Devatas presenting flowers 

 to Eendra; and, in all the licence of joy, they and Creeshna were 

 sporting together, and throwing the flowers at each other. In the 

 garden was a river, whose banks were all gold and jewels, the 

 water of which, from the reflection of rubies, appeared red, though 

 perfectly white; it was the WATER OF LIFE: and thousands of 

 lotoses floated on its surface, among which innumerable bees were 



