60 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

and Lord Balarama was engaged with Bandsura’s commander-in-chief,
Kumbhanda, who was assisted by Kupakarna. Samba, the son of Krsna,
was engaged in fighting with the son of Banasura, and Banasura was
engaged in fighting with Satyaki, commander-in-chief of the Yadu dynasty.
In this way the fighting was waged.

News of the fighting spread all over the universe. Demigods such as Lord
Brahma, from higher planetary systems, along with great sages and saintly
persons, Siddhas, Caranas and Gandharvas—all being very curious to see
the fight between Lord Siva, Lord Krsna and their assistants—were hovering
over the battlefield in their airplanes. Lord Siva is called the bhitta-natha,
being assisted by various types of powerful ghosts and denizens of the
inferno—bhitas, pretas, pramathas, guhyakas, dakinis, pisacas, kismandas,
vetalas, vindyakas, and brahma-raksasas. (Of all kinds of ghosts, the
brahma-raksasas are very powerful. Brahmanas transferred to the role of
ghosts become brahma-raksasas.)

The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna simply drove all these

hosts away from the battlefield, beating them with His celebrated bow,
Sarfigadhan. Lord Siva then began to release all his selected weapons upon
the Personality of Godhead. Lord Sri Krsna, without any difficulty,
counteracted all these weapons with counter-weapons. He counteracted
the brahmastra, similar to the atomic bomb, by another brahmastra, and
an air weapon by a mountain weapon. When Lord Siva released a particular
weapon bringing about a violent hurricane on the battlefield, Lord Krsna
presented just the opposing element, a mountain weapon which checked
the hurricane on the spot. Similarly when Lord Siva released his weapon
of devastating fire, Krsna counteracted it with torrents of rain.

At last, when Lord Siva released his personal weapon, called pdsupata-
Sastra, Krsna immediately counteracted it by the nardyana-sastra. Lord
Siva then became exasperated in fighting with Lord Krsna. Krsna then took
the opportunity to release His yawning weapon. When this weapon is
released, the opposing party becomes tired, stops fighting, and begins to
yawn. Consequently, Lord Siva became so fatigued that he refused to fight
anymore and began to yawn. Krsna was now able to turn His attention
from the attack of Lord Siva to the efforts of Banasura, and He began to
kill his personal soldiers with swords and clubs. Meanwhile, Lord Krsna’s
son Pradyumna was fighting fiercely with Karttikeya, the commander-
in-chief of the demigods. Karttikeya was wounded, and his body was
bleeding profusely. In this condition, he left the battlefield and, without
fighting anymore, rode away on the back of his peacock carrier. Similarly,
Lord Balarama was smashing Banasura’s commander-in-chief, Kumbhanda,
