Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 19:141-150

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Käliya-damana-dävägni-mokñana

Subduing Käliya and Extinguishing the Forest Fire

Chapter 19: Verse 141-150

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 141.Some, overcome with grief, bewilderment, and fear, said among themselves, What shall we do? Where has our Kåñëa gone?" 142.O Kåñëa! O son of Nanda! O friend more dear than life! Please appear before us. We are on the verge of death." 143.Agitated, frightened, and weeping, some boys went and told Nanda, Yaçodä, and Balaräma all that had happened. 144.Hearing the news, all the griefstricken, red-lotus-eyed gopas and gopis left at once. 145.Overcome with grief, they arrived at the Yamunä's shore and wept with the boys. 146.Some gopas and gopis tried to enter the lake. Others stopped them. Some beat their chests in despair. Some wailed. Some fainted. 147.Rädhä tried to enter the lake. The others stopped Her. She fainted in grief. She became like a corpse by the lakeside. 148. 149.Seeing Nanda grieving, Yaçodä fallen unconscious, and the boys and girls wailing in grief, Lord Balaräma, the wisest of philosophers, enlightened them all. 150.Lord Balaräma said: O gopas! O gopis! O boys! Everyone! Please hear My words! O Nanda, best of the wise, please remember Garga Muni's words.