Verse 14

⁷Aniruddha stayed behind on guard, and Krtavarma the troop leader. The rest came with chariots like the seats of the gods, and with horses that ran as though swimming, ⁸with elephants trumpeting like clouds, and men bright as vidyadharas. They shone out on the road, great in their splendour, with gold chains at their necks, ⁹in heavenly garlands and garments and armour, with their wives, like beings that travel the sky. Greatly favoured, they bathed there and fasted and held themselves collected, ¹⁰and gave the brahmins cows hung about with cloth and garlands and gold. The Vrsnis bathed again in Rama's pools as the rule requires,

¹¹and gave good food to the best of the twice-born, saying: let us have devotion to Krsna. Then, with his leave, the Vrsnis, who take Krsna for their god, ¹²ate their fill and sat down as they pleased at the feet of trees with cool shade. And there they saw the kings who had come, their friends and their connections by marriage: ¹³the Matsyas, Usinaras, Kausalyas, Vidarbhas, Kurus and Srnjayas, the Kambojas and Kaikeyas, the Madras, the Kuntis, the Anartas and the Keralas, ¹⁴and hundreds of others, king, some on their own side and some on the other; and Nanda and their friends the cowherds, and the cowherd women, who had been longing for them a long while.