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reeds, with which he struck Veere, and killed him. A spectator 

 of this ran immediately and brought Creeshna news of his death ; 

 and Creeshna then, rousing Balhadur, said to him, " I am afraid 

 that some invader will desolate the town. I request of you to stay 

 here while I go thither, and I will return the instant I have in- 

 formed myself." Then Creeshna went directly towards Dwaraka. 

 On arriving there, he hastened to his father Vasudeva, and, after 

 salutation, acquainted him with the utter annihilation of the whole 

 of the males of the Yadava family. Vasudeva immediately began 

 to weep bitterly ; but Creeshna told him, that, notwithstanding 

 this most dreadful of all calamities, the present was not a time for 

 weeping, but that he must exert himself for the protection of the 

 women till Arjoon's arrival, for whom he had already dispatched 

 Dareke with all expedition ; that he himself must now reluctantly 

 take leave to return to his brother Balhadur, whom he had left 

 sitting disconsolate under a pepal-tree, and anxiously waiting his 

 return ; that he had formerly seen all the Kooroos slain, but that 

 now all the Yadavas, his own relations, had experienced the same 

 fate : and that, being without sons and relations of every kind, he 

 would never more come back into that city, but had made an agree- 

 ment with Balhadur that they should retire together into the desert 

 to pass their lives in prayer. Having said this, he respectfully 

 kissed Vasudeva's feet. At the same time his wives and women 

 began to weep and bewail their fate in the most heart-rending 

 plaints. Creeshna told them not to be so loud in their lamenta- 

 tions, nor to give way to excessive grief, since there was no remedy 

 for the decrees of fate ; that Arjoon would arrive there the ensuing 

 day, and dispel their sorrows. Creeshna having said this, and 

 again taken a most affectionate leave of his father and the rest, 

 departed from the city, and came to the place where he had left 

 Balhadur, whom he found sitting in the very same posture. 



