अध्याय ९५
श्लोक 1
[[इति श्रीविष्णुपुराणे पञ्चमे ऽंशे चतुर्दशो ऽध्यायः ]] ककुद्मिनि हते ऽरिष्टे धेनुके विनिपातिते प्रलम्बे निधनं नीते धृते गोवर्धनाचले
[[iti śrīviṣṇupurāṇe pañcame 'ṃśe caturdaśo 'dhyāyaḥ ]] kakudmini hate 'riṣṭe dhenuke vinipātite pralambe nidhanaṃ nīte dhṛte govardhanācale
हिन्दी अर्थ
श्रीहरिके अनुरागमें शिथिलता आ जानेसे हमारे हार्थोके कंकण भी तुरंत ही ढीले पड़ गये हैं
English
ixFTER tljese things had happened, Aristha, the butf demon and Dhenuka and Pralamba had been destroyed, Govardhana had been uplifted, the serpent Káilya had been vanquished, the two trees had been broken, the female fiend Putanl had been destroyed and the waggon had been over- turned, Naraida went to Kansa and related to him the whole, beginhing with the transference of the child from Devaki lo Yosada. Hearing this from Nárada, Kansa was greatly enraged with Vasudeva and remonstrated with him hard, and with all the Yadavas in an assembly of the race. Then thinking what was to be done he determined to destroy both Krishna and Rama whilist they were yet young and before they had attained to man-hood. Accordingly he made up his mind, to invite them from Vraja under tbe plea of the solemn rite of the lustration of arms, when he would engage them in a trial of strength with his chief boxers Chanura and Mushtika, by whom they would undoubtedly be slain. "1 will send" he said "the noble Akrura, the son of Swapalka to Gokula to bring them hither. I will order the dreadful Kesin, who frequents the forest of VrinJavan, to attack him, and he is of unequalled prowess and will, for certain, kill them ; or if they come here, my elephant KuvalayHpida shall trample to death these two cow-boy sons of Vasudeva." Having thus planned to kill Rama and Janardana, the vicious Kansa sent for the heroic Akrura and said to him, '0 master of liberal gifts, hear my words : and out of friendship for me perform my wders. Ascend your chariot and go to the house of the ■nilkman Nanda. The two vicious boys, portions of Vishnu, have been born there, for the very object bringing about m y destruction. On the fourteenth lunation I íntend celebrat-