s (also slain by thee)! At
Iravati thou hast slain king Bhoja equal unto Karttavirya in battle, and
both Gopati and Talaketu also have been slain by thee! And, O Janardana,
thou hast also appropriated unto thyself the sacred city of Dwarka,
abounding in wealth and agreeable unto the _Rishi_ themselves, and thou
wilt submerge it at the end within the ocean! O slayer of Madhu, how can
crookedness be in thee, devoid as thou art, O thou of the Dasarha race,
of anger and envy and untruth and cruelty? O thou who knowest no
deterioration, all the _Rishis_, coming unto thee seated in thy glory on
the sacrificial ground, seek protection of thee! And, O slayer of Madhu,
thou stayest at the end of the _Yuga_, contracting all things and
withdrawing this universe into thy own self, thou repressor of all foes!
O thou of the Vrishni race, at the beginning of the Yuga, there sprang
from thy lotus-like navel, Brahma himself, and lord of all mobile and
immobile things, and whose is this entire universe! When the dreadful
Danavas Madhu and Kaitava were bent on slaying Brahma, beholding their
impious endeavour thou wert angry, and from thy forehead, O Hari, sprang
Sambhu, the holder of the trident. Thus these two foremost of the
deities have sprung from thy body in order to do thy work! Even Narada
it was who hath told me this! O Narayana, thou didst, in the forest of
Chaitraratha, celebrate with plentiful gifts a grand sacrifice
consisting of a multitude of rites! O God, O thou of eyes like lotus
leaves, the deeds thou hast performed while still a boy, having recourse
to thy might and aided by Baladeva, have never been done by others, nor
are they capable of being achieved by others in the future! Thou didst
even dwell in Kailasa, accompanied by Brahmanas!'"

[16] Also called _Vadarika_, a hermitage on the Himalaya near
the sources of the Ganges.

[17] Nilakantha explains _kshetra_ as including _Mahabhuta_,
consciousness, intellect, the unmanifest (primordial elements),
the ten senses, the five objects of the senses, viz., earth,
water, &c., desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the combinations
of elements, and _chaitanya_.

[18] _Hari_ here means the developed seed that is to expand into
the vast whole of the universe.

Vaisampayana continued, "Having addressed Krishna thus, the illustrious
Pandava, who was the soul of Krishna, became dumb, when Janardana (in
reply addressed that son of Pritha) saying