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which was partly obscured among the trees, he suspected it to be 

 some animal sitting there. Applying, therefore, to his bow and 

 arrow, the point of which was formed from the very iron of that club 

 which had issued from Sateebe's belly, he took aim, and struck 

 Creeshna in the sole of his foot. Then, thinking he had secured the 

 animal, he ran up to seize it, when, to his astonishment, he beheld 

 Creeshna there with four hands, and drest in yellow habiliments. 

 When the hunter saw that the wounded object was Creeshna, he 

 advanced, and, falling at his feet, said, " Alas, O Creeshna ! I 

 have, by the most fatal of mistakes, struck you with this arrow. 

 Seeing your foot at a distance, I did not properly discern my 

 object, but thought it to be an animal : O pardon my involuntary 

 crime !" Creeshna comforted him to the utmost of his power, say- 

 ing, " It was no fault of thine. Depart, therefore, in peace." 

 The hunter then humbly kissed his foot, and went sorrowing away: 

 The piece of iron which had stricken Creeshna was, as before-ob- 

 served, the remains of that very club which had been ground away 

 by order of Ogur Sein, and of which the small bit that was left had 

 been cast into the river, where a fish had swallowed it ; and that 

 fish, being caught, had been sold to this hunter, who, finding a 

 morsel of iron in its belly, formed it into the head of an arrow, 

 with which same arrow he wounded Creeshna. After the hunter 

 was gone, so great a light proceeded from Creeshna, that it en- 

 veloped the whole compass of the earth, and illuminated all the 

 expanse of heaven. At that instant, an innumerable tribe of Devatas 

 and other celestial beings, of all ranks and denominations, came 

 to meet Creeshna ; and he, luminous as on that night when he was 

 born in the house of Vasudeva, by that same light pursued his 

 journey between heaven and earth to the bright Vaicontha, or pa- 

 radise, whence he had descended. All this assemblage of beings, 

 who had come to meet Creeshna, exerted the utmost of their power 

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