Verse 7

¹Then, scorcher of foes, Krsna and Rama, having washed themselves clean, heard the sound of the wrestlers' drums and came to see. ²Reaching the door of the arena, Krsna saw the elephant Kuvalayapida standing there, driven on by its keeper. ³Tightening his belt and gathering up his curling hair, the son of Sura spoke to the elephant keeper in a voice as deep as thunder in a cloud: ⁴Keeper, keeper, give us the road, get out of the way, and be quick. If you will not, I will send you to Yama's house today, and your elephant with you. ⁵Threatened like this, the keeper grew angry and drove the angered elephant at Krsna, an elephant like Yama the ender at the end of time.

⁶The great elephant rushed at him and seized him hard with its trunk. He slipped out of the trunk, struck the beast, and vanished between its legs. ⁷Enraged, and unable to see him, it hunted with its nose and caught Kesava with the tip of its trunk; and he pulled himself out of it by force.