hadst slain, O Krishna, sinful Asuras by hundreds!  By destroying the Mauravas and the Pashas, and slaying Nisunda and Naraka.  Thou hast again rendered safe the road to Pragjyotisha!  Thou hast slain Ahvriti at Jaruthi, and Kratha and Sisupala with his adherents, and Jarasandha and Saivya and Satadhanwan!  And on thy car roaring like unto clouds and effulgent like the sun, thou didst obtain for thy queen the daughter of Bhoja, defeating Rukmi in battle!  Thou didst in fury slay Indradyumna and the Yavana called Kaseruman!  And slaying Salwa the lord of Saubha, thou didst destroy that city of Saubha itself!  These have all been slain in battle; listen to me as I speak of others (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.