an army of elephants the sky is imitating the color of the ocean (37). Blowing there with drops of water the dread ful blasts of winds, that shake the tender plants and destroy the gravity of the oceans, are oppressing all with cold (38). The moon disappearing from view in night after the sun-set, and the clouds continually discharging showers, no quarter of the sky, appears beautiful (39). Filled with passing clouds resembling leathern bags full of air, the sky appears moving like an animate object (40). People can make out very little difference between day and night. What shall I speak more, O Krishna, see, Vrindavana, relieved of heat and adorned with showers, is looking beautiful like Chaitraratha garden" (41). Thus describing the advantages of the rainy season, Krishna’s elder brother, the beautiful Balarāma entered Vraja. Pleasing each other Krishna and Sangkarshana began to range there in that vast forest in the company of their then kinsmen the cowherds (42-43). ²⁰⁷ An insect (coccinella of various kinds). ²⁰⁸ A plant commonly Kadamba (Nancha Kadamba) ²⁰⁹ A medicinal plant. ²¹⁰ The word _Govardhana_ literally means one who nourishes kine from _Go_ kine and _Vardhana_ to nourish. The mountain is so beautifully situated that the kine grow up there without any hitch. But in the rains the mountain has been so covered with clouds that they cannot graze there at ease. It has thus given a lie to the true import of its name. ²¹¹ This refers to the sky, because at the sacrifice of the demon Bali, he placed his first foot on earth and the second in the sky. CHAPTER LXVI. AN ACCOUNT OF KALYA.