1884.] G. A. Grierson —Translation to Manhodli s Ilarihans. 
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high, as a mountain, the snake hissed, (while there stood Krishna) alone 
withont family or retainers. (The snake) hound up^ (Krishna’s) body 
and accomplished his object. He performed wondrous actions, and seized 
Krishna with his teeth. (As they sank, so vast was their size that) the 
(waters in the) pool of the Yamuna (rose, and it) became filled to the 
brim.^ In the water nothing but serpenG could be seen. Tor a space 
Krishna became greatly^ distressed, and the king of serpents displayed 
great insolence. (30) Seeing this his companions ran, and collected^ a 
crowd in the village. Kanda, Yasoda, andBalarama ran, not a crow’s son® 
remained in the village. Full of anxiety they arrived at a run, and 
Yasoda threw herself down and rolled upon the earth, while, with fixed eyes, 
Kanda gazed upon his son, breathless and voiceless like a picture. One 
cowherdess, weighing the matter in her mind, and remembering one or 
two instances of Krishna’s might, said. (35) “ He who beareth the conch- 
shell in his hand, is clever in (preserving) his life” and not the least speck 
of the beauty of her face was dimmed.'^ Another said, “the day with¬ 
out the sun, the night without the moon, and Yraja without Hari,—these 
three are all alike. He who returns to Yraja without Hamodara,® shame, 
shame be upon his father and his mother. Let us all throw ourselves^ 
into the pool of the Yamuna. It were happier for us that the serpent ate 
us than this (that we should desert Hari).” Of what was to be done,^® no 
one knew anything, and for an instant the bank of the river^^ became 
filled with cries.(40) Haladhara’s soul became filled with anguish, 
and seeing this, Hari’s eyes became blood-shot through rage. He 
remembered^® his might, and acted like himself.He violently opened 
^ JT here, and jf in 1. 30, are irregular indecl. participles of y/ ‘ go.’ 
Tlie form is used only after the past tense of another verb, and beyond emphasizing 
the meaning of that other verb, has no other force, ^ accomplish.’ 
‘ filled to the brim.’ Not in Bate. 
* ^Tq-, lit., ‘ serpent on serpent.’ is an old locative. 
this word occurs more than once. It occurs in 4.15, and 2, 1 (text note ft) 
® ^ see note b above. 
® A common idiom for saying that not a soul remained. 
^ (Shr. 
® I. e. Krishna. 
9 Lit. ‘ fall. ’ 
^9 ^ in the text should be gen. sing, of the verbal noun 
of y 
11 " the high bluff of a river.’ 
12 see note ^ page 7. 
* ' 
13 ‘memory.’ Not in Bate. 
14 means, ‘ custom,’ ‘ habit.’ The sentence is literally ‘ took his own 
habit.’ 
