Vaishampāyana said:—Hearing those words of Krishna in the assembly of
Yadus Ugrasena bent down his head in bashfulness and could give no reply
(54). Then Govinda, well read in laws, installed him on the throne. With
the crown on his head the beautiful and effulgent king Ugrasena, along
with Krishna, performed the funeral ceremonies of Kansa (55). As the
celestials follow their king (Indra) so all the leading Yadavas, at the
command of Krishna, followed Ugrasena in the high-way of the city (56).
Thereupon when the night passed away and the sun rose, the leading
Yadavas began to perform the funeral ceremonies of Kansa (57). Thereupon
desirous of performing the obsequial rites of king Kansa according to
the ritualastic laws they placed his body in a palanquin and took it to
the northern bank of Yamunā. And in due order they performed his funeral
rites by setting fire to the pyre (58–59). With the consent of Krishna
the Yādavas also performed the funeral ceremonies of the large-armed
brother of Kansa by name Sunāma (60). Then repeatedly exclaiming. "May
the departed attain to an eternal course" the Vrishnis, Andhakas and
Yadavas offered oblations of water in their honor (61). Having then
offered water to Kansa and his brother, all the Yadavas, preceded by
Ugrasena, returned to Mathura with a sorrowful heart (62).
CHAPTER LXXXVIII. KRISHNA BRINGS BACK HIS PRECEPTOR’S SON FROM THE
OCEAN.
Vaishampayana said:—Thereupon united with Rohini’s son the heroic and
powerful Krishna began to live in the city of Mathurā filled with
Yadavas (1). Gradually his body began to shine in royal and youthful
grace and he began to range in the city of Mathurā adorned with the
ocean-like Yamunā (2).
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