Verse 25
Sudaksina's vow, and the fire in the pit· Verses 25–31
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25Seeing a head with its earring fallen at the king's gate, people were in doubt: What is this, and whose face? 26When they knew it for the king's, the lord of Kasi's, his queens and his sons and his kinsmen and the townspeople cried out: We are undone, king, our master, our master. 27His son Sudaksina performed the rites for his dead father, and thought: I will kill the man who killed my father and so pay what I owe him. 28Having settled this within himself, Sudaksina with his teacher worshipped the great Lord with the whole of his gathered mind. 29The revered Bhava was pleased with him at Avimukta and gave him a boon; and the boon he chose, the one he wanted, was a way of killing his father's killer.
30Tend the southern fire as your priest, together with brahmins, by the rite of witchcraft; and that fire, ringed about with ghouls, 31will bring about what you have resolved, when it is set upon one who does not care for brahmins. So instructed, he did it, a man under vow working witchcraft against Krsna.