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RY OF CULTURE
 

 
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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 गोपैर्गोधनैस्संवृतोऽविशत् ॥
 

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.
 

 
शंधाशूंश्चारयतोर्गो 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

in the guise of a cowherd desiring to
carry them away.
 

 
तं विद्वानपि दाशाहोंर्हो 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.