Verse 47

⁴³At that the Bhagavan stood up, held his own men back, and himself, in anger, took off with his razor-edged wheel the head of his enemy as he rushed at him. ⁴⁴There was a great uproar of voices when Sisupala was killed. The kings who followed him ran off, wanting to keep their lives. ⁴⁵A light rose out of the Caidya's body and went into Vasudeva, while every being there watched, like a meteor falling from the sky to the earth. ⁴⁶With a mind inflamed by an enmity carried through three births, meditating on him, he came to be made of him; for what a man dwells on is the cause of what he becomes. ⁴⁷The sole ruler gave a large fee to the priests and to those seated with them, honoured them all as the rule directs, and took the bath that closes the rite.