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Creeshna then beheld a snake of an enormous magnitude, and 

 exceedingly white, issue from his mouth. When the snake was 

 entirely come forth, all at once it assumed a thousand heads, and 

 went towards the river, while the carcase of Balhadur remained 

 without life under the shade of the same tree as before, while the snake 

 gradually approached the river's side. Creeshna then saw that the 

 river appeared in the figure of a Brahmin, advancing respectfully 

 forward to meet the snake, and said to it, " Approach, and be wel- 

 come." The snakes that were beneath the earth, such as Vasookee 

 and the rest, [a long catalogue of them follows,] and Varoona, who 

 is the spirit of water, all came to meet that snake, and all devoutly 

 worshipped him. That mighty snake moved on majestically in this 

 manner till he entered the river, and, going into the middle of the 

 stream, plunged into it, and was seen no more. When Creeshna saw 

 that Balhadur's spirit had finally departed, he became exceedingly 

 sorrowful. Near where he stood there was a jungle, or brake, into 

 which he entered, and, leaning his head on his knees, sat absorbed 

 in the deepest melancholy. He reflected within himself, that all 

 the effect of Kandharee's curse had now fully taken place on the 

 Yadavas, and he now called to his remembrance these prophetic 

 words which Doorvasa had once uttered to him : " O Creeshna ! 

 take care of the so/e of thy foot; for, if any evil come upon thee, 

 it will happen in that place :" (as is related in the 13th perble of 

 the Mahabbarat.) Creeshna then said to himself, " Since all the 

 Kooroos and the whole of the Yadavas are now dead and perished, 

 it is time also for me to quit the world." Then, leaning to one 

 side, and placing his feet over his thighs, he summoned up the 

 whole force of his mental and corporeal powers, while his hover- 

 ing spirit stood ready to depart. At that time there came thither 

 a hunter with his bow and arrow in his hand ; and, seeing from a 

 distance Creeshna's foot, which he had laid over his thigh, and 



