Verse 10

¹Hearing what the sage of the gods had said, Uddhava, whose mind was great, knew the mind of the court and of Krsna, and spoke. ²God, what the sage said should be done: you should stand as helper to your father's sister's son, who means to sacrifice, and those who seek refuge should be guarded. ³The Rajasuya is to be offered, mighty one, by one who has conquered the whole circle of the quarters. So to my mind beating the son of Jara serves both ends at once. ⁴And by that alone a great thing will come to us, Govinda, and fame to you, for setting free the kings who are bound. ⁵That king is hard to stand against. In strength he matches ten thousand elephants, and matches other strong men too, all but Bhima, who is his equal.

⁶He is to be beaten in a duel of chariots, and not while a hundred divisions stand with him. He honours the brahmins, and when brahmins ask of him he never refuses. ⁷Let Wolf-belly go to him in the dress of a brahmin and beg. He will kill him, there is no doubt of it, in the duel, with you standing by. ⁸In the sending out of the world and its holding back, the golden-wombed one and Sarva are no more than the outward occasion for you, the highest Lord, who are time and have no form. ⁹In their houses the queens of those kings will sing of your clean deed, the killing of their enemies and the freeing of themselves. So the cowherd women sing; and so is sung what was done for the lord of the elephants, for the daughter of Janaka and for your parents; and the sages who found refuge sing it, and we sing it.

¹⁰Killing Jarasandha, Krsna, will serve many ends; and it is mostly by the ripening of that deed that the rite you have in mind will come about.