1884.] G. A. Grierson —Translation to Man%odVs Haribans, 29 
up. Here and there the place was filled with pits^ which had been dug, 
and there were Indian clubs of solid wood.^ (5) The arena was^ ex¬ 
tremely vast, on all sides were many^ palaces high as mountains.^ 
There were two or three hundred two-storied stands. Here and 
there® there were bands'^ and ndch girls dancing. According (to the 
rank of) those who were of chief and polite families,^ so were stands 
allotted to them.^ Kamsa’s own grand-stand was a whole league 
high, and it would have been very difficult to ascend into it without 
a staircase. Why then did Kamsa prepare so high a stand ? Can any 
one escape from the hand of death^® ? (10) While the assembly of the 
people was still going on, there rose a cry^i of “ He’s come, he’s 
come.” In the door-way gleamed the golden diadem (of Krishna), 
together with Kanda and the other Gowalas. The elephant-driver 
struck his elephant and urged it on, and for a space Krishna played 
excellently^^ ^ith it, and then seized the elephant’s tusk, and tore it out 
1 is lit. ‘a weaver’s loom.’ This is built over a pit, and hence the 
word is used to mean any kind of pit. means place.’ 
^ ‘ possessing a (or jj^) is properly a kernel, or the soft 
inside of anything. Thus the jjs of a shell-fish is the fish itself, the shell being 
called 17^. Thus in the fable of ‘ the kite and the crow,’ occurs the passage 
‘ ^^ %T^T ^ 31^ I 31^1 ^IP I 
^s. ^ 
<T Wife I ‘ The 
cockle fell to the earth and was immediately smashed to pieces. Thereupon the 
crow ate up the inside. Shortly afterwards the kite came down, but could find 
nothing but the broken pieces of the shell.’ 
3 In modern Mth. never means ‘ was,’ but only ‘ became.’ 
^ ^ ^ piece,’ here is used as a sign of the plural. 
5 is said by the Pandits to = ‘a mountain.’ It is necessary, 
however, to receive this interpretation w^ith some caution, for the w^ord is not used 
in modern Mth. in this sense nor is its derivation clear. Also is used 
in modern Mth., to signify ‘ pieces,’ the word being apparently only a re¬ 
duplication of a 
® ‘ liV ‘ somewhere.’ 
7 is Bhojpuri plural of a musical instrument, 
commonly means ‘ modest,’ ‘ polite,’ in Mth. 
^ Lit., ‘ so (there was an order) of making stands for them.’ 
I. e., Kamsa foolishly thought that he could provide for his own safety by 
doing so. 
Pers. 
til- ‘ openly.’ Used frequently idiomatically to mean ‘ very well.’ The 
idea is that a man tied up cannot do anything well, 
