Verse 36

³⁶Hearing this, Krsna, who thought a wrestling match was the very thing he wanted, welcomed it and spoke words fitted to the place and the hour. ³⁷We too, though we go about in the woods, are subjects of this lord of the Bhojas. Let us always do what pleases him; that is the highest favour we can have. ³⁸We are boys, and we will play, as is fitting, with those whose strength matches ours. Let the match be so, and let no wrongdoing touch those who sit in this wrestling assembly. ³⁹You are no boy and no youth, and Bala is the best of the strong. In play an elephant was killed by you that carried the force of a thousand elephants.

⁴⁰So the two of you must fight with strong men. There is nothing unfair in it. Show your strength on me, Varsneya, and Mustika will take Bala.