Verse 1

¹Then once, while Rama and Krsna were living in Dvaravati, there was a very great eclipse of the sun, like the one at the ending of an age. ²Knowing of it beforehand, king, people came from every side to the field of Samantapancaka, meaning to do themselves good. ³It is the place where Rama, best of those who carry weapons, cleared the earth of kshatriyas and made great pools with the flood of the kings' blood. ⁴And there the Bhagavan Rama sacrificed, though no work touches him, doing it as anyone else would, to wipe away wrong, so that the world would take hold of it. ⁵The people of Bharata came there on that great pilgrimage, and the Vrsnis too, Akrura and Vasudeva and Ahuka and the rest.

⁶They went to that field, Bharata, wanting to burn away their own wrongdoing: Gada and Pradyumna and Samba and the others. With Sucandra, Suka and Sarana