Verse 58

⁵⁸What is hard for the good to bear? What do the learned look for? What will the mean not do? What is hard to give up for those who hold themselves steady? ⁵⁹Seeing that evenness of Sura's son, and his standing firm in truth, Kamsa was pleased in mind, king, and laughing said this. ⁶⁰Let this boy go back. There is no fear for me from him. It is from the eighth child of you two that my death is appointed. ⁶¹Saying so be it, Anakadundubhi took his son and went; and he did not welcome the words of that man, false and unmastered. ⁶²Nanda and the other cowherds in Vraja, and the women who were theirs, and the Vrsnis, Vasudeva and the rest, and the Yadu women, Devaki and the rest,

⁶³all of them, Bharata, were as gods; and so on both sides were the kinsmen, the relatives and friends, and those who followed after Kamsa.