THE DELIVERANCE OF DHENUKA IN ANOTHER KALPA

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10-Oct-99 15:04

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THE DELIVERANCE OF DHENUKA IN ANOTHER KALPA

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When he heard the sound of the falling fruits, the ass-demon Dhenuka,

who was very powerful, who was a friend of Kaˆsa, and who had been taking

his midday nap, became filled with anger.

 

Coming before the Lord to fight, with his hind hooves Dhenuka suddenly

kicked Balar€ma's chest and neighed. Balar€ma chased Dhenuka, quickly caught

his hind legs, and with one hand playfully threw him into a t€la tree. When

that tree fell it made and many other t€la trees nearby also fall. O king of

kings, all this was very surprising. Then that king of demons again stood up

and angrily grabbed Balar€ma.

 

When Dhenuka struck the ground, his head became badly wounded, and he

fell unconscious. In a moment he stood up, and this time his body was filled

with anger.

 

Then Dheunka manifested a terrifying form with four horns. With his

sharp and terrifying horns he made the gopas flee.

 

When the boys fled, Dhenuka chased them. Angry ®r…d€m€ hit Dhenuka with

a stick, and Subala hit him with his fist.

 

Stoka KŠa whipped the powerful demon with a rope. Arjuna and Aˆu

threw him far away.

 

Vi€la and abha kicked the demon. Tejasv… tried to strangle him.

Devaprastha slapped him.

 

Var™thapa hit the great demon with a ball. Then KŠa grabbed

Dhenuk€sura with both hands, whirled him around, and threw him onto

Gocvardhana Hill. By the force of this the demon was unconscious for an

hour.

 

Shaking off this form, the demon again manifested his original form.

With his horns the demon grabbed KŠa and carried Him into the sky.

 

Eight hundred thousand miles in the sky they fought. KŠa, the

original Supreme Personality of Godhead, grabbed Dhenuk€sura and threw him

to the earth. His bones broken, the demon fell unconscious. Again rising,

the demon made a very terrible sound with his two horns.

 

Uprooting Govardhana Hill, Dhenuk€sura threw it at ®r… KŠa. Catching

the hill, KŠa threw it at Dhenuka's head.

 

The demon caught the hill and threw it again at ®r… KŠa. KŠa caught

Govardhana Hill and threw it back to its former place.

 

Breaking the ground with his horns, the demon charged Balar€ma, kicked

him with his hind hooves, and roared.

 

With that roar the universe echoed and the earth shook. Then with both

hands powerful Balar€ma grabbed the demon and threw him to the ground. His

head broken, the demon fell unconscious. Then KŠa's elder brother,

Balar€ma, punched the demon with His fist.

 

With that punch the demon died. Then the demigods showered flowers from

the nandana gardens.

 

Leaving his body, Dhenuka manifested a splendid and handsome dark form

wearing yellow garments and decorated with a forest flower garland. Then a

chariot, filled with a hundred thousand of the Lord's associates, decorated

with a thousand flags, rumbling with a thousand wheels, pulled by ten

thousand horses, glorious with a hundred thousand c€maras, yellow, studded

with many jewels, eight miles long, beautiful, traveling as fast as the

mind, and decorated with many bells and tinkling ornaments, suddenly

appeared. O king, the demon circumambulated KŠa and Balar€ma, and then,

filling the circle of the directions with light, he ascended the chariot and

went to Goloka, far beyond the material realm.

 

When Dhenuka was killed, KŠa was surrounded by the cows, Balar€ma,

and the boys, who were all singing His glories.

 

>From Garga Samhita

(Translation by H.G. Kusakratha Prabhu)

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