Text 10] The Pandavas Retire Timely 779

Jarasandha never refused charity to any brah mana, and he performed many
sacrifices also, yet he was not on a par with devotional service. Lord Krsna,
Bhima and Arjuna asked Jarasandha the facility of combating him, and it
was settled that Jarasandha would fight with Bhima only. So all of them
were both guests and combatants of Jarasandha, and Bhima and Jarasandha
fought every day for several days. Bhima became disappointed, but Krsna
gave him hints about Jarasandha’s being joined together as an infant, and
thus Bhima dissected him again and so killed him. All the kings who were
detained in the concentration camp to be killed before Mahabhairava were
thus released by Bhima. Feeling thus obliged to the Pandavas, they paid
tribute to King Yudhisthira.

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SCH RIC EO CEA Ce
sofigareaad feast: TATA |
wad fetd acat: oftarseat
TMHANSHA CAMA TMT ofl

patnyas tavadhimakha-klpta-maha-bhiseka-
slaghistha-caru-kabaram kitavaih sabhayam

sprstam vikirya padayoh patitasrumukhya
yas tat-striyo ‘krta hatesa-vimuk ta-kesah

patnyah—of the wife; tava—your; adhimakha—during the great sacrifi-
cial ceremony; klpta-—dressed; maha-bhiseka—greatly sanctified; slaghistha
—thus glorified; caru— beautiful; kabaram—clustered hair; kitavaih—by the
miscreants; sabhdyam—in the great assembly; sprstam—being caught;
vikirya— being loosened; padayoh—on the feet; patita-asru-mukh yah —of the
one who fell down with tears in the eyes; yah—He; tat—their; striyah—
wives; akrta— became; hatesa—bereft of husbands; vimuk ta-kesah—loosened
hair.

TRANSLATION

It was He only who loosened the hair of all the wives of the
miscreants who dared open the cluster of your Queen’s hair when she was
nicely dressed and sanctified for the great Rajasitya sacrificial ceremony.
At that time she fell down at the feet of Lord Krsna with tears in
her eyes.
