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RY OF CULTURE
 

 
GOVE
 
296
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SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
प्रलम्बवधः- THE KILLING OF PRALAMBA
 
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ग्रीष्मो नामर्तुरभवद् वसन्त इव लक्षितः ।
वनं कुसुमितं कृष्णः भगवान् बलसंयुतः ।
वेणुं विरणयन् गोपैर्गोधनैरसंवृतोऽविशत् ॥
 
Summer came, looking beautiful like
Spring itself. Accompanied by Balarama
and surrounded by cowherds and flocks
of cows, Lord Krishna entered the forests
that were in the bloom, sounding His
flute.
 
पशंधारयतोर्गो पैस्तद्वने रामकृष्णयोः ।
गोपरूपी प्रलम्बोऽगादसुरस्तज्जिहीर्षया ॥
 
As Rama and Krishna were tending the
cows in that forest along with the cow-
herds, a demon named Pralamba came
in the guise of a cowherd desiring to
carry them away.
 
तं विद्वानपि दाशाहों भगवान् सर्वदर्शनः ।
अन्वमोदत तत्सख्यं वधं तस्य विचिन्तयन् ॥
Though Lord Krishna, the omniscient,
knew him, He approved of friendship
with him, (thus) intending to kill him.