Verse 19
Twenty-eight days in the dark· Verses 19–25
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19The Bhagavan set the people outside and went alone into the terrible cave of the bear king, wrapped in blind darkness. 20Seeing there the finest of jewels made into a child's toy, he settled it in his mind to take it, and stood near the little one. 21Seeing this man she had never seen, the nurse cried out as if in fear, and hearing her Jambavan, best of the strong, rushed up in anger. 22He fought with that Bhagavan, his own master, taking him for an ordinary man, angry, not knowing what his power was. 23There was a duel, very fierce, between the two of them, each wanting to win, with weapons and stones and trees and bare arms, like two hawks over a piece of meat.
24It went on twenty-eight days, fist against fist, hard as the crack of the thunderbolt, without rest, by day and by night. 25His limbs and the great joints of him ground down under the fall of Krsna's fists, his strength gone, his body running with sweat, he said to him, full of wonder: