Chapter
64: On
Stealing from a Brahmin:
King Nriga a Chameleon
(5) The lotus-eyed
Supreme Lord, the Maintainer of the Universe,
taking a look saw it
and picked it easily up with His left
hand.
Chapter
65: Lord
Balarāma in Vrindāvana
and the Stream Divided
(27) The [goddess of
the] Yamunā thus being chided, fell afraid at
His feet, oh King, and spoke trembling the following
words to the Yadu
descendant [*]: (28)'Rāma, Balarāma,
oh mighty armed soul, what do I know about Your
prowess, oh Master of the
Universe who with a
single portion of Yourself [S'esha] upholds the
earth?
(24-25) He with His flowers,
with a single earring, mad with joy, carrying
His Vaijayantī garland and with His smiling
lotus-like face covered by beads of perspiration
like it were snowflakes, then called for the Yamunā
with the purpose to play in the water. But when
the river thereupon ignored His drunken words
and did
not come, she was by Him angrily dragged with the tip of
His plow. (26) 'Being called by
Me, oh sinful one,
you did not come. Because you, in disregard of
Me, are moving about as you like, I shall bring
you here with the tip of My plow in a hundred
little streams!'
Chapter
66: The
False Vāsudeva Paundraka and
His Son Consumed by Their Own Fire
(16) The
enemies attacked the Lord with
tridents, clubs and bludgeons,
pikes, blades, barbed missiles, lances, swords,
axes and arrows.
Chapter
67: Balarāma
Slays the Ape Dvivida
(2) S'rī S'uka said: 'There
was a certain ape named Dvivida ['the
two-faced one'], a friend of Naraka [or
Bhaumāsura, see 10.59]. He was the mighty brother of
Mainda and an advisor of Sugrīva [the
monkey-chief, see also 9.10: 32, *]. (3) In order to avenge
his friend [who was killed by Krishna] this ape wreaked havoc by
setting fire to the cities, villages, mines
and cowherd communities of the kingdom.
Chapter
68: The
Marriage of Sāmba and the
Kuru City Dragged Trembling of His Anger
(40) Today I will rid the
earth of the Kauravas!', and speaking thus He enraged took His plow and rose up as
if to set fire to the three worlds.
(41) With
the tip of His plow He infuriated pulled up
the city of Hastināpura and dragged her
along with the intention to throw her into
the Ganges.
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