Having recited so much of the history, Shree Shookdeo Jee said,--O lord of the earth! Kuns having heard that Kesee had been killed, early in the morning, raving and trembling, said to Byomasoor, “O powerful Byomasoor! the extirpator of enemies, great is your fame in the world! As the son of Poonuvú (the ape Hunooman) is Ram’s messenger of death, so are you mine. Destroy the sons of Basoodeo, effect this object for me to-day.” Byomasoor with joined hands said in reply, “O great king! to-day I will do all in my power. My body is yours. They, who are fond of life, shrink from sacrificing it for their masters. The good name and virtue of servants and wives consist in giving up their lives for their lords.” Having thus spoken, and taken up the beera of betel in token of undertaking the project, proposed by Kuns, against Krishnù and Buldeo, Byomasoor made an obeisance to Kuns, and set out for Brindabun. On the road he assumed the appearance of a cowherd, and arrived in that disguise at the place where Huri was playing at blind man’s buff with the cowherds’ children and their companions. When, as he was going along, he said to Krishnù from a distance with his hands joined, “O great king! allow me also to play with you,” Huri invited him to come near, and said, “Do not conceal any wish you may have formed, but play with us at any game you prefer?” He was delighted, and replied, “The wolf and rams is a good game.” Shree Krishnù Chund smiled and said, “Very good, you be the wolf, and the cowherds’ children shall be the rams.” Byomasoor was rejoiced at these words, and became a wolf, and the cowherds’ children were rams, and they began to play the game together. The demon took them off one by one, and placed them in the cave of a hill, and shut them up there, by placing a stone across the entrance. When he had thus placed them all there, and Shree Krishnù alone remained, he called out, “I will to-day accomplish Kuns’ business for him, and destroy all the family of Judoo.” Having thus spoken, and abandoned the appearance of a cowherd, and having been transformed into a real wolf, he rushed upon Krishnù, who seizing him despatched him by means of suffocation and blows, in the way the sacrificial goat is killed. CHAPTER XXXIX.