He. is without beginning and without destruction.  He is unmanifest.  He is the high-souled slayer of Madhu.  Endued with mighty energy, He has taken birth (among men) for accomplishing the purpose of the gods.  Verily, this Madhava is the expounder of the most difficult truths relating to Profit or Wealth, and he is also their achiever.  O son of Pritha, the victory thou hast obtained over thy enemies, thy unrivalled achievements, the dominion thou hast acquired over the whole earth, are all due to thy side having been taken up by Narayana.  The fact of thy having got the inconceivable Narayana for thy protector and refuge, enabled thee to become an Adharyu (chief sacrificer) for pouring multitudes of kings as libations on the blazing fire of battle.  This Krishna was thy great sacrificial ladle resembling the all-destroying fire that appears at the end of the Yuga.  Duryodhana, with his sons, brothers and kinsmen, was much to be pitied inasmuch as, moved by wrath, he made war with Hari and the wielder of Gandiva.  Many sons of Diti, many foremost of Danavas, of huge bodies and vast strength, have perished in the fire of Krishna’s discus like insects in a forest conflagration.  How incapable then must human beings be of battling against that Krishna,—­human beings who, O tiger among men, are destitute of strength and might!  As regards Jaya, he is a mighty Yogin resembling the all-destroying Yuga-fire in energy.  Capable of drawing the bow equally with both hands, he is always in the van of fight.  With his energy, O king, he has slain all the troops of Suyodhana.  Listen to me as I tell thee what Mahadeva having the bovine bull for the device on his standard had recited unto the ascetics on the breast of the Himavat.  His utterances constitute a Purana.  The advancement of greatness, energy, strength, prowess, puissance, humility, and lineage that are in Arjuna can come up to only a third part of the measure in which those attributes reside in Krishna.  Who is there that can transcend Krishna in these attributes?  Whether that is possible or not, listen (and judge).  There where the illustrious Krishna is, there is unrivalled Excellence.[585] As regards ourselves, we are persons of little understanding.  Dependent upon the will of others, we are exceedingly unfortunate.  Knowingly we betook ourselves to the eternal path of death.  Thou, however, art devoted to sincerity of conduct.  Having formerly pledged thyself against taking thy kingdom, thou didst not take it, desirous of maintaining thy pledge.[586] O king, thou makest too much of the slaughter of thy kinsmen and friends in battle (brought about, as thou believest, by thyself).  Thou shouldst remember, however, O chastiser of foes, that it is not right to violate a pledge.[587] All those who have fallen on the field of battle have really been slain by Time.  Verily, all of us have been slain by Time.  Time is, indeed, all-powerful.  Thou art fully conversant with the puissance of Time.  Afflicted by Time, it does not behove thee to grieve.