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were now eager to indulge in it even to satiety, while Creeshna 

 arranged in order the various guests. All the elders and nobles of 

 the family, of whom Ogur Sein was the first in age, and Balhadur, 

 Creeshna's elder brother, and Beber, and Satyekee, and Keret- 

 Brema, and the sons of Creeshna, Predemne, Neset, &c. were 

 all present in that assemblage, and every one of the Yadavas of 

 note to a man. 



When they were all duly seated, Balhadur, who was impatient 

 for liquor, called to the attendants to bring some pitchers of wine, 

 and set them before each person, while the master of the ceremo- 

 nies took especial care to place those persons together who were 

 known to be particularly intimate, that they might quaff the spark- 

 ling beverage with more hilarity. Balhadur and Keret-Brema 

 were thus in one party ; Predemne and Satyekee in another ; 

 Veere, or Beber, and Creeshna's younger brothers, in another. 

 Satyekee soon became extremely intoxicated, and, looking towards 

 Keret-Brema, cried out, " See that Khettree, my friends, who 

 vaunts so much of his manhood : he, with the concurrence of As- 

 westhame, went by night to attack a parcel of inoffensive young 

 people, and killed all the poor innocents most unjustly ! Yet he 

 boasts of his courage." Predemne exclaimed, " Bravo !" Keret- 

 Breme, who was also very much intoxicated, said, " Do you, 

 Satyekee, upbraid me ? you, whose merciless sword has perpetra- 

 ted so many murders?" Creeshna now hinted to Satyekee to 

 reproach Keret-Brema for killing Sete-Rajeete, and carrying away 

 his jewel. [Here the story of Sete-Rajeete is related, as in a former 

 page,* see 56 Adhyaye.] When Setebame, Creeshna's wife, heard 

 her father's name mentioned, she began to weep exceedingly, and 

 asked Creeshna how he could suffer those men to live who had 



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* This story, which was tedious and uninteresting, and had no connection with the liistory 



in point of event, I purposely omitted. M. 



