Verse 1

¹Then at that time Arista, the bull demon, came into the cow-station, his body carrying a great hump, shaking the earth that his hooves had cut open. ²He bellowed very harshly, scraped the ground with his foot, lifted his tail, and tore up the banks of earth with the point of his horn. ³He let fall a little dung here and a little there, and passed water, and his eyes stood still; and at that hard bellowing of his, dear one, among the cows and among the people — ⁴the unborn fell before their time and were lost in fear. And the clouds went down into his hump, taking it for a mountain. ⁵Seeing him with his sharp horns, the cowherd women and the cowherds were afraid, and the animals ran off in fright, king, leaving Gokula behind them.