1884.] G. A. Grierson —Translation to Man^hodh^s Ilarihans. 
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and rent tlie pillar,^ with him shall I hold converse. He who taking the 
form of a dwarf deceived Bali, with him shall I hold converse. He 
whom^ the Kshatriya race fear, he who caused to falF the pride of 
Havana.” Saith Man’hodh, “ If I were to describe the joy of Akriira, 
twelve years would pass by (in doing so).” 
End of Book YI, 
Book YII. 
One day there arose a cry^ in Gokula, “a creature in the form of a 
horse hath come with open^ mouth.’ Quickly, quickly, he licked his 
lips with his tongue, and crashing cut the earth with his hoof.® As 
many forms (as an Asura can take), he assumed, and caught hold'^ of 
several cowherds by the leg. 
He cried, “You may pray to Rudra, but I will eat the SAdra,” ® and 
yet, in spite of this the horse did not leap while the goat did.^ (5) All 
the cowherds cried out, “ Save us, Krishna, preserve those who have come 
to thee for refuge.” With long strides^® Krishna ran to the front, and 
KeA began to challenge him. Opening^i a mouth so wide as to show his 
very heart,!^ his teeth appeared like spadefuls^® of white (earth). He 
^ Prahlada. 
^ Parasu Rama. 
3 y/ ‘ cause to fall.’ 
4 There is a Hindi verb ‘to scream.’ 
— ‘open.’ Not in Bate. 
® is old instrumental for . 
7 ‘ catch hold of.’ Not in Bate. 
^ This phrase is a proverb. It refers to a legend about a Brahman who rested 
for the night in a place full of ghosts. When they came to attack him he began 
to do pujd to Rudra (Siva), thus saving himself, but not his Sudra servant who was 
with him. The ghosts cried out to him ‘You may pray to Rudra (and thus save 
yourself) but you will not save your servant from being devoured by us.’ Here the 
Asura is represented as saying to Krishna, ‘ You may save yourself, but you cannot 
save your devotees.’ 
^ Another proverb. A horse, of course, leaps better than a goat, and when he 
is beaten by the latter, there is something wrong. Here the meaning is that Krishna, 
who corresponds to the horse, remained doing nothing, while the Asura (i. e., the 
goat) went about doing all this destruction. 
\/ ‘stride,’ ‘take long steps.’ Not in Bate. 
^ or y/ ‘open.’ cf. in line 1. 
^T<T, ‘ heart,’ ‘ entrails.’ 
‘ a fragment cut by a mattock.’ The word is frequently used for 
the fragments of white clouds seen in the sky, when the latter is clearing after a 
storm. 
