Verse 23

¹⁷While the women were speaking like this, Hari the Bhagavan, lord of yoga, made up his mind to kill his enemy, bull of the Bharatas. ¹⁸Hearing the frightened talk of the women, his parents were taken by the grief that love for a son brings, not knowing what strength their sons had, and they burned with it. ¹⁹By this and that method of the wrestler's art, in all their kinds, the Unfallen and the other one fought each other; and Bala and Mustika did the same. ²⁰Under the falls of the Bhagavan's limbs, as harsh as the crushing of a thunderbolt, Canura's body was being broken, and again and again he went faint. ²¹With the speed of a hawk he sprang up, made both hands into fists, and in anger struck the Bhagavan Vasudeva on the chest.

²²He did not move at that blow, no more than an elephant struck with a garland. Hari took Canura by the arms and swung him round again and again, ²³and dashed him hard down on the face of the earth with the life gone out of him. His ornaments and his hair and his garland came loose, and he fell like Indra's pole.