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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
His clutches, I shall no more return to my capital city, Kuṇḍina. I make this vow before you all, and you will see that I shall fulfill it.” After thus vibrating all these boasting words, Rukmī immediately got on his chariot and told his chariot driver to pursue Krṣṇa. He said, “I want to fight with Him immediately. This cowherd boy has become very proud because of His tricky way of fighting with the  kṣatriyas , but today I shall teach Him a good lesson. Because He has the impudency to kidnap my sister, I, with my sharpened arrows, shall teach Him very good lessons indeed.” Thus this unintelligent man, Rukmī, ignorant of the extent of the strength and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, began to voice impudent threats.
In great stupidity he soon stood before Krṣṇa, telling Him repeatedly, “Stop for a minute and fight with me!” After saying this he drew his bow and directly shot three forceful arrows against Krṣṇa’s body. Then he condemned Krṣṇa as the most abominable descendant of the Yadu dynasty and asked Him to stand before him for a minute so that he could teach Him a good lesson. “You are carrying away my sister just like a crow stealing clarified butter meant for use in a sacrifice. You are simply proud of Your military strength, but You cannot fight according to regulative principles. You have stolen my sister; now I shall relieve You of Your false prestige. You can keep my sister under Your possession only as long as I do not pinion You to the ground for good with my arrows.”
Lord Krṣṇa, after hearing all these crazy words from Rukmī, immediately shot an arrow and severed the string of Rukmī’s bow, making him unable to use another arrow. Rukmī immediately took another bow and shot another five arrows at Krṣṇa. Being attacked for the second time by Rukmī, Krṣṇa again severed his bowstring. Rukmī took a third bow, and Krṣṇa again cut off its string. This time, in order to teach Rukmī a lesson, Krṣṇa personally shot six arrows at him, and then He shot another eight arrows. Thus four horses were killed by four arrows, the chariot driver was killed by another arrow, and the upper portion of Rukmī’s chariot, including the flag, was chopped off with the remaining three arrows.
Having run out of arrows, Rukmī took the assistance of swords, shields, tridents, lances and similar other weapons used for fighting hand-to-hand, but Krṣṇa immediately severed them all in the same way. Being repeatedly baffled in his attempts, Rukmī simply took his sword and ran very swiftly toward Krṣṇa, just as a fly proceeds toward a fire. As soon as Rukmī reached Krṣṇa, Krṣṇa cut his weapon to pieces. This time Krṣṇa took out His sharp sword and was about to kill him immediately, but Rukmī’s