Summary of the Tenth Canto 3

tion of Krsna and Balarama, Their picnics within the forest, the climate
of Vrndavana in the summer and the spring, and Lord Balarama’s killing
of Pralambasura. Chapter Nineteen contains sixteen verses, describing
Krsna’s entering the forest known as Mufijaranya, saving the cowherd
boys and cows from the forest fire, and bringing them to Bhandiravana.
Chapter Twenty contains forty-nine verses. This chapter describes the
enjoyment of Balarama and Krsna in the forest with the cowherd boys
during the rainy season, and it gives various instructions through
analogies concerning the rainy season and autumn.

Chapter Twenty-one contains twenty verses, describing how Krsna en-
tered the forest of Vrndavana in the autumn, playing His flute, and how
He attracted the gopis, who were singing His glories. The Twenty-second
Chapter contains thirty-eight verses, describing how the gopis prayed to
the goddess Katyayani to obtain Krsna as their husband and how Krsna
later stole the garments of the gopis while the gopis were bathing in the
Yamuna. The Twenty-third Chapter contains fifty-two verses, describing
how the cowherd boys, being very hungry, followed Krsna’s directions
by begging some food for Him and themselves from brahmanas engaged
in performing yajnas. The brahmanas refused to give food to Krsna and
Balarama, although the boys begged for it, but the wives of the
brahmanas agreed, and therefore Krsna bestowed His mercy upon them.

The Twenty-fourth Chapter contains thirty-eight verses, describing
how Krsna defied King Indra, despite Indra’s position of prestige, by
stopping the indra-yajfa and instead worshiping Govardhana. The
Twenty-fifth Chapter contains thirty-three verses. As described in this
chapter, because the indra-yajfia was stopped, King Indra was very
angry, and to kill the inhabitants of Vrndavana, Vraja, he flooded the en-
tire area with rain. Krsna, however, accepted King Indra’s challenge by
lifting Govardhana Hill as an umbrella to protect Vrndavana and all the
cows. The Twenty-sixth Chapter contains twenty-five verses, describing
how Nanda Maharaja, seeing the extraordinary activities of Krsna, was
struck with wonder and how he thus narrated for all the cowherd men
the whole story of Krsna’s opulence, as foretold by Gargamuni. Chapter
Twenty-seven, which contains twenty-eight verses, describes how King
Indra, upon seeing Krsna’s unlimited power, worshiped Lord Krsna, who
was fully washed with milk supplied by the surabhi and who thus be-
came known as Govinda. The Twenty-eighth Chapter contains seventeen
