32 G. A. Grierson —Translation to Man^hodh’s Ilarihans. [Sp. No. 
instantaneously, and felled Mm to tlie ground. (40) Blood flowed in 
torrents from Ms mouth, and nose, and the earth for a highd round him 
became thereby a morass. Chanura the wrestler became crushed to 
pieces,^ and died, what life can there be to him whom Hari hath touched 
in anger ? Just as^ Hari had done^ to Chanura, so also did Haladhara 
slay Mushtika. Toshala the wrestler, seeing this, became wroth, and rose 
clapping his hands as a mighty challenge. When he had slain Toshala 
Hari approached Kamsa, and (like) what bird of the air did he become 
(in that he was able to ascend the lofty stand) ? (45) Upon the stand,"^ 
in real verity,^ he hurled him down, and without letting him go dashed 
him down to the ground.® He thrust on him an infinitesimal portion of 
Ms weight^ (in his character) of the universe, and Kamsa immediately^ 
gave up his breath. (Pretending) to think that Kamsa was annoyed 
in his heart (at the treatment he had received) Krishna seized him by 
the hair,^ and dragged him some distance. On seeing this Kamsa’s 
brother, named Sudaman ran up challenging him, but, swooping down 
between them Haladhara seized him, and laughingly treated him in the 
same way.^® (50) When the five men had been killed, (although) other 
(demons present) were spared, the arena became as (horrible as) a 
burial-ground. 
Then Kamsa’s mother, wife, and younger brother’s wife came up, 
and in piteous grief rolled^^ upon the ground. Into Hari’s ears^^ came 
the cries of the dying,i® and even his eyes filled with tears. (He consoled 
petty devices as tricks to Channra, and forthwith killed him by sheer display of 
force. 
1 ‘ ground to powder.’ 
2 ^ ^ in V. 38. head and not 
^ is here used for 
is here the general obi. form of 
^ Obi. of ‘ real truth,’ a reduplication of 
® ‘ below.’ Cf. Bangali in my notes on the Rangpur 
dialect, see J. A. S. B., No. 3 for 1877, p. 199, 1. 15. 
^ ^X = VK. 
® ‘ immediatelyapparently the indecl. part, of a y/ which I 
have not met elsewhere. 
^ 
i^ the correlative of There is no form corresponding 
to 
‘ how much,’ hence ‘ exceedingly.’ 
^'T’SR, Mr 
^X ^ common expression for ‘ a person at the point of death.’ 
