14 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

rumors we can understand that you have enhanced your opulence and are
performing sacrifices on an altar made of solid gold.” The properties of
the jewel were known: wherever the jewel remained, it would produce for
the keeper almost nine mounds of pure gold daily. Akrira was getting gold
in that proportion and was distributing it very profusely at sacrificial
performances. Lord Krsna cited Akrira’s lavishly spending in gold as
positive evidence of his possessing the Syamantaka jewel.

When Lord Krsna, in friendly terms and in sweet language, impressed
Akrira about the real fact and Akrira understood that nothing could be
concealed from the knowledge of Sri Krsna, he brought the valuable jewel,
shining like the sun and covered by cloth, and presented it before Krsna.
Lord Krsna took the Syamantaka jewel in His hand and showed it to all
His relatives and friends present there and then again returned the jewel to
Akrira in their presence so that they would know that the jewel was
actually being kept by Akriira in Dvaraka City.

This story of the Syamantaka jewel is very significant. In the Srimad-
Bhagavatam it is said that anyone who hears the story of the Syamantaka
jewel or describes it or simply remembers it will be free from all kinds of
defamation and the reactions of all impious activities and thus will attain
the highest perfectional condition of peace.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Second
Chapter of Krsna, “The Killing of Satrajit and Satadhanva.”
