332 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

street, all the ladies and women began to regard Him with great affection.
Krsna and Balarama carried various kinds of booty, ornaments and jewels
carefully collected from the battlefield and presented them to King
Ugrasena. Krsna thus offered His respect to His grandfather because he was
at that time the crowned king of the Yadu dynasty.

Jarasandha, the King of Magadha, not only besieged the city of Mathura
once, but he attacked it seventeen times in the same way, equipped with
the same number of military phalanxes. Each and every time, he was
defeated, and all his soldiers were killed by Krsna, and each time he had
to return disappointed in the same way. Each time, the princely order of
the Yadu dynasty arrested Jarasandha in the same way and again released
him in an insulting manner, and each time Jarasandha shamelessly returned
home.

While Jarasandha was attempting one such attack, a Yavana king
somewhere to the south of Mathura became attracted by the opulence of
the Yadu dynasty and also attacked the city. It is said that the king of the
Yavanas, known as Kalayavana, was induced to attack by Narada.
This story is narrated in the Visnu Purana. Once, Gargamuni, the priest of
the Yadu dynasty, was taunted by his brother-in-law. When the kings of
the Yadu dynasty heard the taunt they laughed at him, and Gargamuni
became angry at the Yadu kings. He decided that he would produce some-
one who would be very fearful to the Yadu dynasty, so he pleased Lord
Siva and received from him the benediction of a son. He begot this son,
Kalayavana, in the wife of a Yavana king. This Kalayavana inquired
from Narada, ““Who are the most powerful kings in the world?” Narada
informedhim thatthe Yadus were the most powerful. Being thus informed
by Narada, Kalayavana attacked the city of Mathura at the same time that
Jarasandha attempted to attack it for the eighteenth time. Kalayavana was
very anxious to declare war on aking of the world who would be a suitable
combatant for him, but he had not found any. However, being informed
about Mathura by Narada, he thought it wise to attack this city. When he
attacked Mathura he brought with him thirty million Yavana_ sol-
diers. When Mathura was thus besieged, Lord Sri Krsna began to consider
how much the Yadu dynasty was in distress, being threatened by the at-
tacks of two formidable enemies, Jarasandha and Kalayavana. Time was
growing very short. Kalayavana was already besieging Mathura from all
sides, and it was expected that the next day Jarasandha would also come,
equipped with the same number of divisions of soldiers as in his previous
seventeen attempts. Krsna was certain that Jardsandha would take advan-
tage of the opportunity to capture Mathura when it was also being besieged
