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81. Krishna summoned the gods urgently, and they came, and made 
obeisance to him with hands clasped, “ Wherefore, Oh Mighty Lord, hast 
thou summoned us ?” 
Krishna spake. 
82. u I have determined to he horn in Gokula. Come ye all, and raise 
a storm of wind and rain. Hear ye now, oh gods, my resolution.” 
83. They took fifty-two times sixteen scores of winds and clothed 
themselves in them. S'ilavati was dressed in forty times sixteen scores of 
hail-stones. 
84. Indra clothed himself in twelve clouds, and they roared like 
unto the roar of a lion or of an elephant. 
85. For seven nights and nine days the storm raged in Gokula. 
86. The clouds poured forth in streams. The hail began to fall like 
thunder-bolts. 
87. Plants and trees were broken. The trees flew about like dust. 
The S'riphala tree fell, and the tiger ran away with a broken tail. 
88. The scouts of king Kamsa fled and hid themselves under the 
madias * of the householders. The messengers and the archers fled, running 
at the top of their speed. 
89. One messenger fled to where the ploughmen were. He laid 
aside his sword and shield and took to weeding the field. 
90. Another scout ran into the house of a woman fresh from child¬ 
bed. He took the pagan off his head and with it began to cleanse the 
child, f 
91. He said to the wife, “ Mother, mother, close the door. Who 
again will enter (such) service (as mine), may his wife be unto him as his 
mother. 
92. “ I would sooner turn a beggar, and support an old father and 
mother, and break up my sword and shield, and fashion them into scythes 
and hatchets.” 
93. As the day has been, so is the night. Devaki hath a child and 
the neighbours know it not. 
94. He is born of a dark complexion, with a garland of wild flowers 
round his neck. The tune of his nostrils is like the melody of a flute. 
95. A pearl coronet on his head, a S'riphala and a lotus in his hand. 
On his right standeth Lakshmi, on his left Sarasvati. 
96. He tottereth as he goeth. His feet wear a pair of anklets. 
Round his neck a glorious golden wreath. 
* A kind of bamboo divan. 
f Lit. 1 Ano fieces detergens.’ 
