Verse 15

⁸Taking that huge beast by the tail, he dragged it twenty-five bow-lengths, in play, as the fine-winged one drags a serpent. ⁹As the elephant swung round, to the left and to the right, the Unfallen swung with it, the way a boy turns with a calf he is swinging. ¹⁰Then he came at it face on, struck the beast with his hand and ran; and, touched at every step, he brought it down. ¹¹As he ran he fell to the ground in play and got up again at once. The beast thought he had fallen, and in its rage it drove both tusks into the earth. ¹²Its own charge having failed, the great elephant could bear no more, and, driven on by its handlers, it rushed at Krsna in fury.

¹³The Bhagavan, slayer of Madhu, met it as it came, gripped its trunk with his hand, and brought it down to the ground. ¹⁴He set a foot on it where it lay, as a lion does, in play; and Hari tore out a tusk and with it killed the elephant and its keepers. ¹⁵Leaving the dead beast, he went in with the tusk in his hand. The tusk lay on his shoulder, he was marked with drops of blood and of the beast's rut, and small beads of sweat had come out on the lotus of his face. So he shone.