The play of the boys.
324 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap, everywhere in vain for them. Alas, he was thrown © into a dungeon, and condemned to be there in
chains for the remainder of his life.
At Ujani, a son was born to Khullana, a lovely
child whom everyone in the village loved dearly.
He was named Grimanta. He played manly games
with his comrades. The play of Ha-do-do, by
which the muscles become strong, was his favourite,
but the pastoral games of Crikrispa were the craze
of the young men of that period. One of the
boys would act the part of the demon of the whirl-
wind—Trinavarta. He would sweep down like a
whirl-wind and surprise the others who were
acting the parts of the Vrindavana-shepherds,
and C@rimanta, figuring as Krisna, would kill
Trinavarta after a severe battle. Sometimes a boy
would take the part of Jasoda, but Grimanta, the
young Krisna, proved too heavy for this, when the
former tried to lift him in her arms. Poor Jasoda
fell to the ground with her Krisna and the sound
of laughter was heard among the boys, who enjoy-
ed failure and success with equal zest. At one time
Narasimha Das, one of the companions of Crimanta,
became Bramha, the god with four faces, and
took away a kid belonging to the shepherds.
Crimanta, as Krisna, produced an illusion and ina
mysterious way the kid was made to reappear
and Bramha’s attempt to thwart Krisna was
foiled.
Thus all that Krisna did with the shepherds 1n
the groves of Vrinda was re-enacted in Ujani, and
no one there played his part so well as Crimanta,
the son of Dhanapati.
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