Summary of the Tenth Canto
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tion of Krṣṇa and Balarāma, Their picnics within the forest, the climate of Vrṇdāvana in the summer and the spring, and Lord Balarāma's killing of Pralambāsura. Chapter Nineteen contains sixteen verses, describing Krṣṇa's entering the forest known as Muñjāraṇya, saving the cowherd boys and cows from the forest fire, and bringing them to Bhāṇḍiravana. Chapter Twenty contains forty-nine verses. This chapter describes the enjoyment of Balarāma and Krṣṇa in the forest with the cowherd boys during the rainy season, and it gives various instructions through analogies concerning the rainy season and autumn.
Chapter Twenty-one contains twenty verses, describing how Krṣṇa entered the forest of Vrṇdāvana in the autumn, playing His flute, and how He attracted the  gopīs , who were singing His glories. The Twenty-second Chapter contains thirty-eight verses, describing how the  gopīs  prayed to the goddess Kātyāyanī to obtain Krṣṇa as their husband and how Krṣṇa later stole the garments of the  gopīs  while the  gopīs  were bathing in the Yamunā. The Twenty-third Chapter contains fifty-two verses, describing how the cowherd boys, being very hungry, followed Krṣṇa's directions by begging some food for Him and themselves from  brāhmaṇas  engaged in performing  yajñas . The  brāhmaṇas  refused to give food to Krṣṇa and Balarāma, although the boys begged for it, but the wives of the  brāhmaṇas  agreed, and therefore Krṣṇa bestowed His mercy upon them.
The Twenty-fourth Chapter contains thirty-eight verses, describing how Krṣṇa defied King Indra, despite Indra's position of prestige, by stopping the  indra-yajña  and instead worshiping Govardhana. The Twenty-fifth Chapter contains thirty-three verses. As described in this chapter, because the  indra-yajña  was stopped, King Indra was very angry, and to kill the inhabitants of Vrṇdāvana, Vraja, he flooded the entire area with rain. Krṣṇa, however, accepted King Indra's challenge by lifting Govardhana Hill as an umbrella to protect Vrṇdāvana and all the cows. The Twenty-sixth Chapter contains twenty-five verses, describing how Nanda Mahārāja, seeing the extraordinary activities of Krṣṇa, was struck with wonder and how he thus narrated for all the cowherd men the whole story of Krṣṇa's opulence, as foretold by Gargamuni. Chapter Twenty-seven, which contains twenty-eight verses, describes how King Indra, upon seeing Krṣṇa's unlimited power, worshiped Lord Krṣṇa, who was fully washed with milk supplied by the  surabhi  and who thus became known as Govinda. The Twenty-eighth Chapter contains seventeen