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Krsna; partha—Arjuna; bhima—the second Pandava; vydaja-ahvayena—by the
false names; harina—by Lord Hari; nilayam—the abode; tadiyam—of Him.

TRANSLATION

All demonic personalities like Pralamba, Dhenuka, Baka, Kei, Arista,
Canitira, Mustika, Kuvalayapida elephant, Kamsa, Yavana, Narakasura, and
Paundraka, and great marshals like Salva, Dvivida monkey, and Balvala,
Dantavakra, the seven bulls, Sambara, Viduratha and Rukmi, as also great
warriors like Kamboja, Matsya, Kuru, Srijaya and Kekaya, would all
fight vigorously, either with the Lord Hari directly or with Him under His
names of Baladeva, Arjuna, Bhima, etc. And the demons, thus being killed,
would attain either the impersonal brahmajyoti or His personal abode in
the Vaikuntha planets.

PURPORT

All, manifestations, both in the material and spiritual worlds, are
demonstrations of the different potencies of lord Krsna. The Personality
of Godhead Baladeva is Ilis immediate personal expansion, and Bhima,
Arjuna, ete., are His personal associates. The Lord would appear (and He
does so whenever He appears) with all His associates and potencies.
Therefore the rebellious souls, like the demons and demoniae men, men-
tioned by names like Pralamba, ete., would be killed etther by the Lord
Himself or by His associates. All these affairs will be clearly explained in
the Tenth Canto. But we should know well that all the above-mentioned
living entities killed would attain salvation cither by being merged in the
brahmajyoti of the Lord or being allowed to enter into the abodes of the
Lord called Vaikunthas. This is already explained by Bhismadeva (First
Canto). All persons who participated in the Battlefield of Kurukgsetra or
otherwise with the Lord or with Baladeva, ete., would be benefitted by
attaining spiritual existence according to the situation of the mind at the
time of death. Those who recognized the Lord would enter Vaikuntha,
and those who estimated the Lord as a powerful being only would attain
salvation by merging into the spiritual existence of the impersonal brahma-
jyoli of the Lord. Bul every one of them would get release from material
existence. Since such is the benefit: of those who played with the Lord
intmically, one can imagine what would be the position of those who
devoutly served the Lord in transcendental relationship with Tin.
