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unknown to the other Purdnas, are most lavishly multiplied in the 

 work under review. 



Although assuming a royal character, this work describes Krishna 

 as resigning the supremacy to Ugrase'n a, and directing Dwdrakd to 

 be built for him, by the divine architect Viswase'na — a wide departure 

 from the account every where else given of the circumstances, under 

 which Dwdrakd became the capital of Krishna. He having been 

 driven from Mathurd by Jarasandha, the father-in-law of Kansa, 

 whom Krishna had deposed and slain; Krishna and his tribe, on their 

 expulsion from Mathurd, fled to the west coast of the peninsula, and 

 there founded a new city. No notice whatever is taken of these revo- 

 lutions in this work, although they are told at some length, in the 

 Mahdbhdrat, Vishnu Purdna, and Bhdgavat. In a subsequent chapter 

 indeed, this Purdna refers to the same events, although it does not 

 particularise them ; and Rukmi the brother of Rukmini' reproaches 

 Krishna with having fled to Dwdrakd through fear of Jarasan- 

 dha. 



Krishna's marriage with Rukmini' is next narrated, but he does 

 not carry her off, as in other authorities. Her brother opposes his 

 entrance into the city, but is defeated by Baladeva, and then Krishna 

 enters, and is duly married to the princess in her father's presence. 

 Every where else, he runs away with her before the marriage, and 

 Baladeva checks the pursuit. 



In the next chapters, a conversation between Radha and Yaso da, ex- 

 pounds the purport of eleven names of Krishna, and these are succeeded 

 by an account of the birth of Rukmini"s son Pradyumna, his being car- 

 ried off by a demon, and his recovery, the birth of other sons of Kkishna, 

 and marriage of the sage Durvasas to a daughter of Ugrase'na. 

 Krishna's share in the war of the Mahdbhdrat is very briefly dispatched, 

 except a long hymn to him by Sisupala, whom he slew. The 

 intrigue of Aniruddha, Krishna's grandson, with Usha, the daugh- 

 ter of Vana, is narrated at some length, in the usual style, and the 

 unsuccessful contest waged by that prince against Krishna is pro- 

 tracted by the episodical insertion of a variety of stale legends, to a 

 disproportionate extent ; these stories are related alternately by 

 Aniruddha and Vana, as they stand prepared to engage in single 

 combat for the purpose of proclaiming the respective might ot 

 Krishna and Siva, Vana being devoted to the worship of the latter 

 divinity. Siva however, after vainly attempting to dissuade him from the 

 conflict, is obliged to witness his votary's defeat, with that of Skanda 



