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spread upon the ground to sit. on, after a few minutes, found in 

 the place of it nothing but worms. The moon was eclipsed on its 

 twelfth day, and the sun on the twenty-seventh of the moon. This same 

 prodigy had happened there once before, at the time of the war of 

 the Mahabbarat. Creeshna, when he saw this miracle, said, " It 

 is now thirty-six years since this same portentous sign was seen 

 in the war of the Mahabbarat, and at that time did Kandharee 

 utter her curse against us ; the very same ill omens then appeared 

 at the extinction of all the Kooroos ; and, as they portended the 

 death of all the Kooroos at that time, so they now forbode the death 

 of all the Yadavas." 



One night Creeshna ordered the heralds to proclaim, that, on 

 the next day, all men should go to the banks of the river in pil- 

 grimage to a famous place of Avorship and bathing ; and that same 

 night there suddenly appeared in Dwaraka a woman of the very 

 blackest complexion ; she was also dressed in black attire, and 

 was hideous, with yellow teeth. She entered every house grinning 

 horribly a ghastly smile, and all who saw her were stricken with 

 dread. The moment any person attempted to catch her, she van- 

 ished, and immediately appeared in some other house ; so that on 

 one and the same night she was seen in almost every house at 

 Dwaraka ; and, in places where they were celebrating Yugs, such 

 heart-appalling terrors arose, that no one could possibly go thither. 

 Daemons also came, and carried away the ornaments of the women 

 and the arms of the men, and no one could impede them, or re- 

 cover the things they seized. In the midst of this dreadful tumult 

 and distraction, the heart of Creeshna, taking its direction through 

 the air, ascended to heaven, so that all men saw it, and, with a 

 confused clamour, exclaimed aloud, " Lo ! Creeshna's heart as- 

 cends its native skies !" Every one followed it with their eyes till 

 distance rendered it completely invisible. Dareke, too, the driver, 



