Summary Description of Lord Krsna’s Pastimes 349

years. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami informed Maharaja Pariksit that he had
heard from reliable sources that simply to teach the children of the Yadu
dynasty, there were as many as 38,800,000 tutors or dcdryas. If so many
teachers were needed to educate their children, one can simply imagine
how vast was the number of family members. As for their military strength,
it is said that King Ugrasena alone had ten quadrillion soldiers as personal
bodyguards.

Before the advent of Lord Krsna within this universe, there were many
battles between the demons and the demigods. Many demons died in the
fighting, and they all were given the chance to take birth in high royal
families on this earth. Because of their royal exalted posts, all these
demons became very much puffed up, and their only business was to
harass their subjects. Lord Krsna appeared on this planet just at the end of
Dvapara-yuga in order to annihilate all these demonic kings. As it is said in
the Bhagavad-gita, paritranaya sadhiinam vindsaya ca duskrtam: The Lord
comes to protect the devotees and to annihilate the miscreants. Some of
the demigods were also asked to appear on this earth to assist in the
transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna. When Krsna appeared, He came in
the association of His eternal servitors, but the demigods also were re-
quested to come down to assist Him, and thus all of them took their births
in the Yadu dynasty. The Yadu dynasty had 101 clans in different parts
of the country. All the members of these different clans respected Lord
Krsna in a manner befitting His divine position, and all of them were His
devotees heart and soul. Thus all the members of the Yadu dynasty were
very opulent, happy and prosperous, and they had no anxieties. Because
of their implicit faith in and devotion to Lord Krsna, they were never
defeated by any other kings. Their love of Krsna was so intense that in
their regular activities—in sitting, sleeping, traveling, talking, sporting,
cleansing and bathing—they were simply absorbed in thoughts of Krsna
and paid no attention to bodily necessities. That is the symptom of a pure
devotee of Lord Krsna. Just as when a man is fully absorbed in some
particular thought, he sometimes forgets his other bodily activities, so the
members of the Yadu dynasty acted automatically for their bodily
necessities, but their actual attention was always fixed on Krsna. Their
bodily activities were performed mechanically, but their minds were
always absorbed in Krsna consciousness.

Srila Sukadeva Gosvami has concluded the Ninetieth Chapter of the
Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhdgavatam by pointing out five particular
excellences of Lord Krsna. The first excellence is that before Lord Krsna’s
appearance in the Yadu family, the River Ganges was known as the purest
