अध्याय ११६
श्लोक 1
[[इति श्रीविष्णुपुराणे पञ्चमे ऽंशे पञ्चत्रिंशो ऽध्यायः ]] मैत्रेय श्रूयतां तस्य बलस्य बलशालिनः कृतं यद् अन्यत् तेनाभूत् तद् अपि श्रूयतां त्वया
[[iti śrīviṣṇupurāṇe pañcame 'ṃśe pañcatriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ ]] maitreya śrūyatāṃ tasya balasya balaśālinaḥ kṛtaṃ yad anyat tenābhūt tad api śrūyatāṃ tvayā
हिन्दी अर्थ
जो पुरुष भगवान् कृष्णके इस चरित्रको
English
JT arasara said : — Listen, OTnaitreya, to anotherachieve- ment accomplished by the powerful Balarama. The great Asura, Naraka, the enemy of the friends of the celestials, had a friend of exceeding might in a monkey named Dwivida, who was worked up with implacable hostility against the celestials, and vovved to revenge on all of them the destruction of Naraka by Krishna at the insti- gation of the king of the celestials, by preventing sacrificfs and brinoin<» about the total destruction of the world. Blinded by ignorance therefore, he interrupted all religious practices, put down all righteous observances, and brought about the death of living creatures ; he set fire to forests, to villages and towns : sometimes he deluged cities and villages with a downpour of rocks or lifting up mountains in the waters he cast them into the ocean ; then placing himselfin the midst of the deep, he agitated the waves until the foaming sea rose above its confines and swept away the vil- lages, and cities situated upon its shores. Dwivida, who was capable of assuming shapes as he liked, enlarged his bulk to an immense proportion, and rolling and tumbling and trampling amidst the corn-fields, he crushed and spoiled tbe harvest. The whole world, disorganised by this vicious monkey, was deprived of sacred study and religious ceremonies, and was greatly afflicted.