Chapter9 continued-
Krishna and Balarama started for Mathura and seeing that the gopis ran behind the chariot sounding like the kururi birds lamenting on the departure of Krishna,with dishevelled hair and garments, saying that they will sp tophim even if they have to fall in front of the chariot.
They became angry with Akrura for taking Krishna away from them, as though lcking their eyes fom them, and said that he did not desrve to be called Akrura ,not cruel while he is really krura.As the most cruel rakshasas deceive the world disguised as good ones Akrura came in a suave form and deceived them.
The Lord , they said ,uplifted the earth from the sea in His incarnation as the boar, Varaha, and wondered whether He would now extricate them from the sea of grief.
They accuse him of giving up Gokula, being attracted by the richness of
The reason for this was even the mind-stone manassila, of the gopis were melted by his moonlike smile. ( manassila means mind like sti one and also a kind of redstone found on the mountains. cf.'manssilAyAsthilako gandapArsvwe niveSithah,'-VR-sundarakanda, where Sita tell Hanuman to remind Rama about his putting the redmark of the manssila on her forehead as a sign of Hanuman meeting Sita.)
But Krishna would not be moved by the city -women as he was not, by the gopis as otherwise he would not have left them because the moon melts the moonstone and not viceversa.So they entertained some hope that he may return to Gokula and give joy to their eyes and ears ut again they became desperate thinking that he might be attracted by the refined beauty, speech and behaviour of the city-women 'maThuraouramatthakASinee maDHurAlApam,' and may forget them.
In the meanwhile the chariot went out of their eyesight and hearing. The gopis wondered that they were still alive even after
Here, Desika says that even this was the mercy of the Lord.
svaguNAnubhavEna subhruvAm
bhavabhogochithapuNya samchayam
virhavyaTHayA thu theevrayA
vrjinAmbhODHim aSoshayath parabhuh.
Their joy ue to union with
The chapter ends with brief account of Akrura having entered the waters of Yamuna, seeing
Then they crossed Yamuna,which looked agitated with the thought that
End of chapter 9 of yadhavabhyudhaya.
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