Verse 36

³²Seeing him move to kill her brother, Rukmini was unsteady with fear; that true woman fell at her husband's feet and spoke to him pitifully. ³³Sri Rukmini said: Lord of yoga, whose self cannot be measured, god of gods, master of the world, you should not kill my brother, auspicious one, great-armed. ³⁴Her limbs shook with terror, her face dried up with grief and her throat was stopped; in her wretchedness her golden necklace slipped down. His feet were held, and he grew pitying and turned back. ³⁵Binding that doer of no good with a strip of cloth, he shaved him, moustache and hair, and made him ugly. Meanwhile the Yadu champions were crushing the enemy army, wonderful as it was, the way elephants crush a lotus pond.

³⁶Coming up near Krsna, they saw Rukmi there. Seeing him brought to that, as good as killed, the mighty Sankarsana let the bound man go, and the Bhagavan, in pity, said to Krsna: