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Rh shina, Kamvoja of the Puru race, Vrihadvala, Sushena, Sivi, the son of Usinara, Patcharanihanta, the king of Karusha, Sankarshana (Valadeva). Vasudeva (Krishna), the mighty son of Rukminy. Samva Charudeshna, the son of Pradyumna with Gada, Akrura, Satyaki, che high-souled Uddhava, Kritavarmana, the son of Hridika. Prithu. Viprithu Viduratha, Kanka, Sanku with Gaveshana, Asavaha, Aniruddha. Samika, Sarimejaya, the heroic Vatapi Jhilli pindaraka, the powerful Usinara, all these of the Vrishni race, Bhagiratha, Vribatkshatra, Jayadratba the son of Sindhu, Vrihadratha, Valhika, the mighty charioteer Srutagu, Uluka, Kaitava, Chitrangada and Suvangada, the highly intelligent Vatsaraja, the king of Kosola, Sisupala and the powerful Jarasandha, these and many other great kings-all Kshatriyas celebrated throughout the world-have come, O blessed one, for thee! Endued with prowess, these will shoot the mark. And thou shalt chose him for thy husband who amongst these will shoot the mark."

Thus ends the hundred and eighty-eighth section in the Swayamvara Parva of the Adi Parva.

Vaisampayana said, "Then those youthful princes adorned with earrings, vying with one another and each regarding himself accomplished in arms and gifted with might, stood up brandishing their weapons. And intoxicated with pride of beauty, prowess, lineage, knowledge, wealth, and youth, they were like Himalayan elephants in the season of rut with crowns split from excess of temporal juice. And beholding each other with jealousy and influenced by the god of desire, they sud. denly rose up from their royal seats, exclaiming 'Krishna shall be mine." And the Kshatriyas assembled in that amphitheatre, each desirous of winning the daughter of Drupada, looked like the celestial (of old) standing round Uma, the daughter of the King of mountains. Afflicted with the shafts of the god of the flowery bow and with hearts utterly lost in the contemplation of Krishna, those princes descended into the amphitheatre for winning the Panchala maiden and began to regard even theic best friends with jealously. And there came also the celestials and their cars, with the Rudras and the Adityas, the Vasus and the twin Aswins, the Swadhas and all the Marutas, and Kuvera with Yama walking ahead. And there came also the Daityas and the Supar