i884.] G. A. Grierson —Translation to MarbhodVs Hafibdns. 
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riipted it. A bull with his whole body covered with cowdiing and 
nrine^ came along harassing^ the cows on his way by his violence. 
With closed eyes he rnnneth about in ten directions, his shoulders and 
Immp high as a mountain. Such a bull no one could oppose when they 
saw him every one was seized with trembling. (10) With a roar as of a lion 
he threatened Hari, and began to throw up earth behind him. He shook^ 
his horns^ with closed eyes, but Krishna caught him by the horn and 
struck him. Seizing him, Hari struck him with all his force and ex¬ 
hausted him, and hit him with his knee exactly on^ the belly. He tore 
out his left horn, and with it hit him, and felled him to the ground. 
The dead bull became a blessings (for by his death) the earth began to 
be relieved of its burden. 
(15) Karadathe saint has only this duty^ to engender^ strife, and to 
encourage the enemies’ side. One day he went to Karpsa’s court-yard, 
and told him by degrees all (that had happened). How the guards had 
become intoxicated and gone to sleeps and Yasudeva had exchanged the 
infants. (He told him) all that Hari had done from the day of his 
birth,—the subduing of Kali, and the upholding of Govardhana. To 
all (the Asuras) he said, “ Make some device, for your enemy is waxing 
stronger day by day. (20) It clearly appears'^ that some day he will 
destroy^ you ; that boy will become the destroyer of your house.” King 
Kamsa began to say “ Trom long ago I have had this fear.^ Ho, my 
Henchman, thou art my brother, haste and calh^ Kesi. He alone^^ 
honoureth my cherishing, above all doth my hope increase in him.” 
Thereupon Kesi arrived and boasted^^ of his might; saying, (25) To¬ 
morrow wilh^ I destroy the cowsheds (of Vraja),” he departed. Then 
^ rf, = Not in Bate. 
2 Bead whicli is irregular old loo. of pres. part, of 
Wl^, ‘liarass,’ ‘oppress.’ The Bhojpuri pres. part, would be loc. 
^ (sc- 
^ ‘ shake.’ 
5 Lit. ‘ looking at,’ a common idiom in Maithili. 
® Oblique of in sense of genitive, see note 4 page 2. 
^ ‘clearly.’ Not in Bate. ^ is here used in a neuter impersonal 
sense. 
® -v/ ^1 is here, irregularly, used in a causal sense. 
2 '^'^31 = ‘ fear.’ Not in Bate. 
“ (a Bhojpuri form), 2 imperat. sing, of 
Lit. ‘form,’ hence, ‘ person.’ = Hindi 
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x/ tiere = ‘ boast.’ 
31 sign of future, see note 2, page 5 . 
