Parāçara said:—Beholding Devaki and Vasudeva obtain true discriminative
knowledge on seeing his wonderful feat, Krishna, being anxious to
beguile them and other descendants of Yadu race, spread again the
illusions of Vishnu. Thereupon he said to his parents—"O father, O
mother, my elder brother Baladeva was all along anxious to behold you.
It is out of fear of Kansa he could not do so. So long the pious do not
serve their parents that portion of their life is spent in vain. O
father, blessed is the birth of those men who serve their spiritual
preceptors, celestials, Brāhmanas and their parents. Thou shouldst
therefore forgive us, O father, for the violations committed. For up to
this time we were greatly distressed and under the influence of another
on account of the prowess and strength of Kansa". Saying this Krishna
bowed unto his parents and other elderly members of the Yadu race and
duly honoured the citizens. Thereupon Kansa's mothers and wives being
stricken with grief and sorrow, began to lament encircling Kansa lying
dead on the ground. Hari then expressed his regret for what had
happened, and with eyes saturated with tears he consoled them. The
slayer of Madhu then released Ugrasena from prison and placed him on the
throne rendered vacant by the death of his son. Being installed on the
throne the Yadava-chief performed the funeral rites of Kansa and of the
rest of the slain. When the ceremony was finished and Ugrasena had taken
his royal seat, Krishna addressed him and said:—"O Supreme lord, order
me freely what else to be done. By the curse of Yayati, our race cannot
govern—but having me as your servant you may order even the celestials.
How should kings disobey them?"
Parāçara said:—Having said this, Kesava, assuming human shape summoned
mentally the deity of the wind, who immediately came there, and said to
him—"Proceed, Vāyu, to Indra and tell him to lay aside his pomp, and
resign to Ugrasena his splendid hall Sudharman: tell him that Krishna
commands him to send the royal hall, the unrivalled gem of princely
courts, for the assemblage of the race of Yādu". Accordingly Vāyu went
and delivered the message to the husband of Sachi, who immediately gave
up to him the hall Sudharman, and Vāyu conveyed it to the Yādavas, the
chiefs of whom thenceforth possessed this celestial court, emblazoned
with jewels, and defended by the arms of Govinda. The two excellent Yadu
youths, versed in all knowledge, and possessed of all wisdom, then
submitted to instruction, as the disciples of teachers. Accordingly they
repaired to Sāndipani—who, though born in Kāsi, resided at Avanti—to
study the science of arms, and, becoming his pupils, were obedient and
attentive to their master, exhibiting an example to all men of the
observance of instituted rules. In the course of sixty-four days they
had gone through the elements of military science, with the treatises on
the use of arms, and directions for the mystic incantations, which
secure the aid of supernatural weapons. Sāndipani, astonished at such
proficiency, and knowing that it exceeded human faculties, imagined that
the sun and the moon had become his scholars. When they had acquired all
that he could teach, they said to him, "Now say what present shall be
given to you, as the preceptor's fee". The prudent Sāndipani, perceiving
that they were endowed with more than mortal powers, requested them to
give him his dead son, drowned in the sea of Prabhāsa. Taking up their
arms, they marched against the ocean; but the all-comprehending sea said
to them, "I have not killed the son of Sāndipani; a demon named
Panchajana, who lives in the form of a conch shell, seized the boy; he
is still under my waters". On hearing this, Krishna plunged into the
sea; and having slain the vile Panchajana, he took the conch shell,
which was formed of his bones (and bore it as his horn), the sound of
which fills the demon hosts with dismay, animates the vigour of the
gods, and annihilates unrighteousness. The heroes also recovered the boy
from the pains of death, and restored him in his former person to his
father. Rāma and Janārddana then returned to Mathura, which was well
presided over by Ugrasena, and abounded in a happy population both of
men and women.