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of ground which has remained barren ever since 
Krishna, while standing there, had cause for anger ; 
there a smooth rock upon the river bank where he 
was in the habit of washing his dhoti , and there a 
hill upon which he was accustomed to receive and 
cure all who were afflicted by disease or mental 
suffering. These were the more playful acts of 
Krishna, for Gokul was the resort of his leisure 
hours; it was in Bindrabund and Muttra that his 
more terrible deeds were executed, such as the de- 
struction of the vile serpent of evil, Kali Nagur, 
which had thrown itself in coils across the river 
Jumna and stopped the course of the waters, so that 
those who were not killed through thirst died of the 
poisonous impurity of the stream, and many other 
equally redoubtable acts which are the theme of song 
and fable in all these parts. There are in particular 
two spots of broken ground which are pointed out to 
the inquisitive visitor as of very especial interest, 
having been formerly the site of two trees, the 
Jemla and the Arjia, concerning which the following 
LEGEND 
is related with great reverence, as recording one of 
the earliest of Krishna’s god-like acts, while he was 
yet but the infant son of a cow-herd. 
Some few hundreds of years before Krishna was 
born, a farmer of considerable wealth had two re- 
markably handsome sons, by name Neeld and Kho* 
