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1 2, 4 | Valadeva and his brother Krishna sprung from Yadu's race,~
2 2, 4 | armed with ploughshare, Krishna chief of righteous fame.~
3 2, 4 | that wondrous bridal came,~Krishna marked the sons of Panda
4 2, 8 | VIII - KRISHNA TO THE RESCUE~Kri.shnaknew
5 2, 8 | scaped his unrelenting ire!"~Krishna rose amidst the monarchs,
6 2, 8 | peace,~Monarchs bowed to Krishna's mandate, left Panchala'
7 3 | too married the sister of Krishna, shortly after Draupadi'
8 3, 2 | and monarchs paid,~Pious Krishna unto Brahmans honour and
9 3, 3 | upper sky,~And in lotus-eyéd Krishna saw the Highest of the High!~
10 3, 4 | Greatest midst the great is Krishna! chief of men without a
11 3, 4 | Like the radiant sun is Krishna midst the planets of the
12 3, 4 | sanctity and splendour unto Krishna's holy might!"~Bhishma spake
13 3, 4 | flavoured unto peerless Krishna brought,~Krishna trained
14 3, 4 | peerless Krishna brought,~Krishna trained in rules of virtue
15 3, 4 | To the great and honoured Krishna, Sisupala wrathful cries.~
16 3, 5 | royal mansion grace?~Unto Krishna as a rishi should the foremost
17 3, 5 | inspired by Heaven!~Unto Krishna should we render honour
18 3, 5 | might precedence claim!~Unto Krishna for his knowledge should
19 3, 5 | Wherefore then to unknown Krishna render we this homage free!~
20 3, 6 | and high,~Calm unto him Krishna answered, but a light was
21 3, 6 | Never in his heart hath Krishna sought to do his kinsman
22 3, 6 | bride,~This and more hath Krishna suffered, for his mother
23 3, 6 | righteous doom is Death!"~Krishna spake; the rising red blood
24 3, 6 | taunt and jeer,~Answered Krishna's lofty menace with disdain
25 3, 6 | seeks no mercy, nor doth Krishna's anger dread!"~Lowered
26 3, 6 | s anger dread!"~Lowered Krishna's eye and forehead, and
27 3, 6 | in this hall assembled!" Krishna in his anger cried,~"Oft
28 3, 6 | Chedi's impious monarch Krishna's noble rage defied,~For
29 3, 6 | hundred follies would by Krishna be forgiven,~I have kept
30 3, 6 | discus, as this mandate Krishna said,~Fell on impious Sisupala,
31 3, 6 | and mantling cloud,~Unto Krishna good and gracious, like
32 3, 6 | their inmost bosom welcome Krishna's righteous deed,~Look on
33 3, 6 | Rishis bless the deed of Krishna as they wend their various
34 3, 6 | pious-hearted chant the righteous Krishna's praise!~Sad Yudhishthir,
35 3, 7 | of gold and rice,~Godlike Krishna watched benignly with his
36 3, 7 | Yudhishthir's kinsman, righteous Krishna fain would part,~And unto
37 3, 7 | friend! to sea-girt Dwarka, Krishna now his steps must trace."~"
38 3, 7 | By thy presence, noble Krishna, I performed this high emprise,~
39 3, 7 | Yet thou partest, sinless Krishna, dearest, best belovéd friend,~
40 3, 7 | Dwarka's sea-washed mansions Krishna must his footsteps bend!"~
41 3, 7 | s mother, pious-hearted Krishna hies,~And in accents love-inspiring
42 3, 7 | benedictions, for the righteous Krishna said,~And his faithful chariot-driver
43 3, 7 | resistless in the war,~Pious Krishna mounts the chariot, fondly
44 3, 7 | grieved at heart,~Followed Krishna's moving chariot, for they
45 3, 7 | could not see him part,~Krishna stopped once more his chariot,
46 3, 7 | Spake and left the saintly Krishna, pure and pious-hearted
47 4, 6 | Help me, pious-hearted Krishna, friend of friendless, wipe
48 5 | checkered their forest life. Krishna, who had stood by Yudhishthir
49 6, 5 | handsome youth of godlike face,~Krishna's sister, fair Subhadra,
50 6, 6 | from regions near and far.~Krishna decked in floral garlands
51 6, 6 | Chumbal with the righteous Krishna came,~He to gallant sons
52 6, 6 | fair Subhadra, nursed by Krishna's loving care,~With a godlike
53 7, 1 | I - KRISHNA'S SPEECH~Mirth and song
54 7, 1 | foremost seats of honour claim,~Krishna too and Valadeva, Dwarka'
55 7, 1 | graver questions all on Krishna turn their eye,~Krishna
56 7, 1 | Krishna turn their eye,~Krishna with his inner vision then
57 7, 1 | in happy days of yore?"~Krishna uttered words of wisdom
58 7, 2 | II – VALADEVA'S SPEECH~Krishna's elder Valadeva, stalwart
59 7, 3 | in the gory field of war,~Krishna with his fiery discus mounted
60 7, 4 | the red and reeking plain,~Krishna in his righteous effort
61 7, 4 | to far Hastina's palace Krishna went to sue for peace,~Raised
62 7, 5 | V - KRISHNA'S SPEECH AT HASTINA~Silent
63 7, 5 | voice of rolling thunder Krishna spake unto them all:~"Listen,
64 7, 5 | lords who grace this hall,~Krishna pleads for peace and virtue,
65 7, 6 | Listen, prince, for righteous Krishna counsels love and holy peace,~
66 7, 6 | years increase!~Yield to Krishna's words of wisdom, for thy
67 7, 6 | field lie,~Hearken unto Krishna's counsel, unto wise Vidura'
68 7, 7 | counsel which the righteous Krishna said,~Ancient Bhishma's
69 7, 7 | never, never can be thine,~Krishna conquers, and brave Arjun!
70 7, 7 | conquers Arjun in the fight!~Krishna too, in war resistless,
71 7, 9 | thy parents' closing life,~Krishna's heart is pure and spotless,
72 7, 9 | worldwide empire with the noble Krishna's aid,~Seek the friendship
73 7, 9 | vain.~Peace is righteous Krishna's counsel and he comes to
74 7, 10| hall,~Spake to mighty-arméd Krishna and to Kuru warriors all:~"
75 8 | were his principal allies. Krishna joined him as his friend
76 8 | was on this occasion that Krishna explained to him the great
77 8 | Professor Garbe remarks, "does Krishna revert to the doctrine that
78 8, 2 | Sought the aid of gallant Krishna for the morning's fresh
79 8, 2 | among the dead,~Godlike Krishna drove the coursers of resistless
80 8, 3 | Vainly given by saintly Krishna, thou art doomed by righteous
81 8, 3 | end,~Arjun nor the valiant Krishna could against the tide contend!~
82 8, 3 | stricken by a sudden fear!~Krishna, Arjun's chariot-driver,
83 8, 3 | dubious fight,~Shame on Krishna! if he joins thee in this
84 8, 3 | warrior's wonted work to know,~Krishna with his fiery discus smites
85 8, 3 | cried Arjun in his anger, "Krishna shall not wage the fight,~
86 8, 3 | Caught him as the angry Krishna still his distant foeman
87 8, 3 | viewed,~Stalwart Arjun lifted Krishna, as the storm lifts up a
88 8, 3 | to him his knee:~"Pardon, Krishna, this compulsion, pardon
89 8, 3 | my troth I pledge thee, Krishna,--let thy angry discus sleep,--~
90 8, 7 | rushed into the dreadful war,~Krishna drove his milk-white coursers,
91 8, 8 | few and brief:~"Wherefore, Krishna, for a kingdom mingle in
92 8, 8 | calls for vengeance! noble Krishna, drive the car,~Let them
93 8, 9 | countless force and mine?~Krishna now hath come to Arjun,
94 8, 9 | now hath come to Arjun, Krishna drives his battle-car,~Gods
95 8, 10| wakes the sound of woe,~Krishna, stop this cruel carnage,
96 8, 10| tents the Pandavs turn with Krishna deep and wise,~He unto the
97 8, 10| valour and their might,~Krishna, loth is archer Arjun to
98 8, 10| Listen, good and noble Krishna; as a child I climbed his
99 8, 10| Gravely answered noble Krishna: "Bhishma falls by close
100 8, 10| godlike might!~But bold Krishna drove his chariot, whispered
101 9, 3 | With the ever faithful Krishna now his nightly shelter
102 9, 3 | shelter sought,~Wherefore, Krishna," uttered Arjun, "evil omens
103 9, 3 | Abhimanyu comes not joyous Krishna and his sire to hail,~Abhimanyu'
104 9, 3 | benign Yudhishthir, hear me, Krishna righteous lord,~Arjun's
105 9, 3 | joyless was Subhadra's life,--~Krishna's fair and honoured sister,
106 9, 4 | morning air,~"Speed, my Krishna," out spake Arjun, as he
107 9, 4 | Fiery coursers urged by Krishna flew with lightning's rapid
108 9, 4 | Arjun said the faithful Krishna, "arduous is thy cruel quest,~
109 9, 4 | awhile the weary horses, Krishna, I will watch the fight!"~
110 9, 4 | the green and shady tree,~Krishna groomed the jaded horses,
111 9, 4 | refreshed, the noble coursers Krishna harnessed to the car,~And
112 9, 4 | grapple Arjun and on faithful Krishna pressed,~Arjun swept like
113 9, 4 | marked the day's decline,~Krishna then a prayer whispered;
114 10, 2 | fiery coursers, peerless Krishna leads them well,~Krishna
115 10, 2 | Krishna leads them well,~Krishna holds the reins for Arjun,
116 10, 2 | holds the reins for Arjun, Krishna speeds his battle-car,~Drives
117 10, 2 | Salya,too is skilled, like Krishna, with the steed and battle-car,~
118 10, 2 | blood?"~"At a distance," Krishna answered, "fiery Arjun fought
119 10, 2 | Wherefore doth the peerless Krishna drive his coursers fleet
120 10, 2 | But the wise and noble Krishna strove the fatal feud to
121 10, 2 | Arjun mounts the battle-car,~Krishna drives the milk-white coursers
122 10, 2 | Unto Karna pleading virtue Krishna answered calm and grave:~"
123 10, 2 | Yudhishthir's exile crost,~Krishna asked in right and justice
124 11, 2 | anguished daughters unto Krishna thus she spoke:~"Mark my
125 11, 3 | LAMENT FOR DURYODHYAN~Thus to Krishna, Queen Gandhari strove her
126 11, 3 | Kshatras nobly conquer, Krishna, when in war they nobly
127 11, 3 | I five to be a witness! Krishna, O that I were dead!~Mark
128 12 | He preaches the cult of Krishna, and narrates endless legends,
129 12 | moral rules is not yet over. Krishna himself takes up the task
130 12 | of the sage Utanka, whom Krishna meets, then take up a good
131 12, 5 | their father and their lord!~Krishna too in gentle accents to
132 12, 5 | all with many tear-drops Krishna mounts his lofty car,~Faithful
133 12, 5 | Yudhishthir's friend of yore,~Krishna leaves Hastina's mansions
134 End | fire being considered holy.~Krishna at Dwarka meets with strange
135 End | dissensions. Valadeva and Krishna die shortly after, and the
136 End | the death of their friend Krishna, the Pandav brothers place
137 End | celestial body. He then meets Krishna, now in his heavenly form,
138 Epi | feeble old Kuru monarch. And Krishna possesses a character higher
139 Epi | their friend the righteous Krishna. The people of Bombay and
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