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The eclipse, and the road to Samantapancaka· Verses 1–6

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Then 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. Knowing of it beforehand, king, people came from every side to the field of Samantapancaka, meaning to do themselves good. It 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. And 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. The people of Bharata came there on that great pilgrimage, and the Vrsnis too, Akrura and Vasudeva and Ahuka and the rest.

They 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