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 520 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. of Nanda Ghosa, prince of Vrindavana and he sent Putana, the demon-nurse, to kill the child. Putang aise tine was ৮: and then, as I have said in a previous the King’s Chapter, in my remarks on the Bhagabata, one by emissaries. one Kamsa’s emissaries, Tfinabarta, Baka, Keci and others were killed in the course of similar missions and the King’s anxiety grew in an alarming degree. Last of all he sent Akrara, a devout Akrira. Vaisnava, who would know whether it was indeed Vishu who was incarnated as Krisna, ordering him to bring Krisna to attend the Dhanuryajiia or bow-sacrifice that he was holding at Mathura. Nanda Ghosa, a feudatory chieftain under Kamsa, could not disobey his command. And Krisna and Valarama, his cousin, were taken to Mathura, where enon the former killed Kamsa in the open court. This is briefly the story of the Bhagabata ; but | Vaisnava oet তি 2 the Vaisnava poets do not lay any stress on such ০ manifestations of the glory or 4%, of Krisaa. above. They scarcely touch on any of the points, here mentioned, in their accounts of Krisna. They describe his games and pastimes at home where his mother Yacoda, while punishing him for misconduct, weeps for remorse. She would not allow him to go to the fields with other boys to graze the cattle, for fear of Kamsa’s emissaris ; and every The Gostha morning the shepherds would come to her and beg her to send Krishna with them for the day. The Gostha or songs of the pastoral sports detail how Yacoda at first refuses the shepherds but at last yields to their entreaties coupled with Krisna’s own request to be allowed to go to the meadow ;—how the shepherd boys blow their horns and the cows follow