Verse 1

¹Bharata, while his kinsmen went on without sight of Aniruddha and grieved for him, the four months of the rains went by. ²Hearing from Narada the news of him, how he had been bound and what he had done, the Vrsnis, whose god is Krsna, set out for the city of Sonita. ³Pradyumna and Yuyudhana, Gada, Samba, and then Sarana; Nanda, Upananda, Bhadra and the rest, all of them followers of Rama and Krsna; ⁴gathered with twelve divisions from every quarter, those bulls of the Satvatas shut in Bana's city on every side. ⁵Watching the gardens and walls and watchtowers and gateways of his city being broken down, he was taken over by rage and came out with an army as large.