Thereupon coming down from the chariot that highly powerful and liberal
prince, resembling a Vasu, entered Nanda’s house (15). As soon as he
entered the gate with his face full of joy and eyes full of tears he saw
Krishna stationed at the milking-place in the midst of calves like a
bull. Greatly delighted at seeing Krishna, the pious Akrura with heavy
accents, said "Come to me, O Keshava." And beholding Vāsudeva, at the
junction of boyhood and youth who lay on a fig-leaf at the time of the
universal dissolution, and who assumed the form of a dwarf at the time
of imposing on Bali, served by the prosperity of the three worlds, he
praised him again and again and said within himself:—"This is the
lotus-eyed Krishna of the size of a huge mountain, resembling an ocean
overflowed with water and endued with the prowess of a lion and tiger.
Irrepressible in battle he has the mystic mark of Srivatsa on his breast
and his well-adorned arms are like a ground where the enemies are being
killed (16-20). He is the incarnation of Vishnu under the guise of a
milk-man who is the first worshipful of the universe and whose form is
Upanishad. His hairs have stood erect (on seeing a votary) (21). His
head, resembling an umbrella, is worthy of a crown, his ears of two most
excellent Kundalas and his spacious breast of a neck-chain. And his two
plump and long arms have increased his beauty (22-23). Clad in a yellow
raiment, his body, looked after by a thousand of women can even cut
Madana (Cupid) to the quick. He is the eternal Vishnu (24). The lord,
whose two feet are the refuge of the earth, and which covered the three
worlds, has himself descended on earth (25). His beautiful right hand is
fit for holding the discus and his left hand is, as if, willing to hold
a club (26). With his first foot²⁵⁸ he has descended on earth. And that
foremost of the celestials is shining on earth (27).
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