Verse 24

Glance

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The guards, and the walk through the city· Verses 19–24

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Then the guards and their attendants, angry, with their weapons raised, wanting to take him, closed in on him: seize him, kill him. Seeing that they meant harm, Bala and Kesava grew angry, took up the two halves of the bow, and killed them with them. They killed the troop Kamsa had sent as well. Then they came out from the front of the hall and walked about, glad, looking at the riches of the city. Seeing that wonderful force in the two of them, and their heat and their boldness and their beauty, the people of the city took them for the best of the gods. While they were going about as they pleased, the sun went down. Krsna and Rama, ringed by the cowherds, left the city for the wagons.

The blessings the cowherd women had asked for when Mukunda went away, sick as they were with the parting, came true in the city of Madhu. As people looked at the beauty of that body which is the ornament of men, Sri herself, leaving the others who worshipped her, longed for a resting place there.