Verse 4

⁴Seeing great portents risen in the sky, on the earth and in the air between, Krsna said this to the Yadus, who were seated in the Sudharma hall. ⁵These terrible great portents in Dvaravati are the banners of Yama. We must not stay here even an hour, bulls of the Yadus. ⁶Let the women, the children and the old go from here to Sankhoddhara. We shall go to Prabhasa, where the Sarasvati runs toward the west. ⁷There, having bathed and being clean, having fasted and being well gathered, we shall worship the gods with bathing and anointing and honouring. ⁸And the brahmins, who are greatly favoured, we shall honour, when the rite of blessing has been done, with cows, land, gold and clothes, with elephants, horses, chariots and houses.

⁹This is the rite that kills what is inauspicious, and the highest way to what is auspicious. The worship of gods, of the twice-born and of cows is the highest state among beings. ¹⁰Hearing all this from the enemy of Madhu, the elders of the Yadus said, So be it; and crossing over by boat they went on to Prabhasa in their chariots. ¹¹There the Yadavas did what the Bhagavan, the god of the Yadus, had told them, with the highest devotion, and it was heaped up with every good thing.