Verse 1

¹Kesi, whom Kamsa had sent, a great horse quick as thought, wore the earth away with his hooves and filled the sky with clouds and flying chariots that his mane threw about, and his neighing frightened everyone — ²wide-eyed, his mouth a hideous hollow, his neck huge, like a great blue rain-cloud, evil in his intent and wanting to do Kamsa good, he came to Nanda's Vraja and made it shake. ³He was frightening the Bhagavan's own Gokula with that neighing of his, and with his tail he sent the clouds spinning, and he was looking for him to fight; and the Bhagavan, the foremost one, called him out, and he roared like a lion.

⁴Seeing him, he turned to face him and rushed on, past all bearing, as though he were drinking the sky with his mouth; and hard to come at, of a fierce speed, hard to get past, he struck the lotus-eyed one with his hooves. ⁵The one beyond the reach of the senses dodged that, caught him in anger by the legs with his two arms, whirled him round, and threw him off with contempt the length of a hundred bows; then he stood as Tarksya's son stands when he has thrown a snake.