Chapter
79:
Lord
Balarâma Slays Balvala and Visits the Holy
Places
(3-4) The sight of that
immense body looking like a heap of soot with a topknot
and beard of burning copper, fearsome teeth and a face
with contracted eyebrows, made Râma think of His
club, tearing asunder opposing armies, and His plow,
subduing the daityas, that both forthwith stood at his
side
Chapter
80:
An
Old Brahmin Friend Visits Krishna
(20-22) Next having him
seated on the bed came He up with some items to honor his
friend and wash his feet. The water took the Supreme Lord
of All the Worlds on His head, o King, after which the
Purifier anointed him with divinely fragrant sandalwood
and aloe-wood paste and kunkuma. Gladly worshiping His
friend with aromatic incense and series of lamps, said He
welcome, offering betelnut and a cow.
(38) We, constantly
heavily besieged by the great wind and water there, were
in the flooding unable to make out which way to go and
then, wandering distressed in the forest, held each
other's hands.
Chapter
81:
The
Brahmin Honored: Lord Krishna the Godhead of the
Brahmins
(5) The twice one born
though, thus being addressed, was, bowing down his head,
too embarrassed with Him, the Husband of the Goddess of
Fortune, and didn't offer the few hands of ricegrains, o
King.
Chapter
82:
All
Kings and the Inhabitants of Vrindâvana
on Pilgrimage Reunite with Krishna
(10) In the lakes of
Paras'urâma as prescribed once more taking a bath
[the next day to conclude their fast], prayed the
Vrishnis, feeding the twiceborn sumptuously with the
finest food: 'Let there be our devotion unto
Krishna.'
(40) The Supreme Lord
approaching them more privately informed, embracing them,
after their health and said, laughing, this: (41) 'Dear
girlfriends, do you still remember Us, who intent on
destroying the party of Our enemies, for that duty stayed
away so long?'
Chapter
83:
Draupadî
Meets the Queens of Krishna
(9) S'rî
Satyabhâmâ said: 'To my father whose heart
was distressed with the death of his brother, returned
He, being accused, to clear His name, the jewel back
after defeating the king of the bears
[Jâmbhavân]; afraid because of this
offered my father me to the Lord although I was spoken
for already [see 10.56].
(25-26) When the proud
kings defeated in their pride had given up, did the
Supreme Lord, playfully taking up the bow, stringing it
and then fixing an arrow on it, pierce the fish with its
shaft, with the sun situated in Abhijit [in
'victory', or at noon] only once having looked at it
in the water.
Chapter
84:
Vasudeva
of Sacrifice to the Sages at Kurukshetra Explaining the
Path of Success
(24-25) The way a
sleeping person envisioning himself an alternate reality
with names and forms with what he manifests through his
mind does not know of a separate reality beyond it, does
one with You similarly having names and forms, by the
activity of the senses of Your mâyâ getting
bewildered in one's consciousness, have no clue because
of the discontinuity of one's memory [compare B.G.
4.5 and 4.29:1b, 10.1: 41 and 7.7: 25].
(51) He to the rules
worshiped with each kind of sacrifice characterized as
primary [to the s'ruti] and secondary
[modified to other sources, see *4], with
offerings in the fire and so on the Lord of the
Paraphernalia, the Mantras and the Rituals.
