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in the sea that he would flood the neighboring cities and villages. Often he would go to the hermitages of great saintly persons and sages and cause a great disturbance by smashing their beautiful gardens and orchards. carries away many flies and other insects and puts them within the holes of the trees where it lives Thus Dvivida regularly defied the law and order of the country.

While Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak on the transcendental pastimes and characteristics of Lord Kṛṣṇa

When Lord Balarāma saw the disturbances created by the gorilla and heard that he had already performed many mischievous activities all over the country, He became very angry and decided to kill him. To counteract Balarāma, he immediately uprooted a big oak tree, and with great force he came and struck Lord Balarāma, however, immediately caught hold of the big tree and remained undisturbed, just like a Again Lord Balarāma tore the tree to pieces, and the fighting continued.

After this horrible incident, all the Siddhas, great sages and saintly persons from the upper planetary system showered flowers on the person of Lord Balarāma and vibrated sounds glorifying His supremacy. After killing the great demon Dvivida and being worshiped by showers of flowers and glorious sounds of

This gorilla by the name Dvivida could climb up into the trees and jump from one branch to another. Sometimes Dvivida would come before the women and exhibit different types of caricatures. By nature young women are apt to enjoy everything with laughter and joking, and when the gorilla came So He took a stone and threw it at Dvivida. to offend Balarāmajī and His companions.

When no more trees were available, Dvivida took help from the hills and threw large pieces of stone, The gorilla, being bereft of all trees and stone slabs, now stood before Balarāma and waved his strong striking Him with his hands, Lord Balarāma would not strike him back with His own weapons, the club or This blow proved fatal to Dvivida, who immediately vomited blood and fell unconscious upon the ground When the gorilla fell, all the hills and forests appeared to totter.

This gorilla was a great friend of Bhaumāsura, or Narakāsura, who was killed by Kṛṣṇa in connection with When Dvivida gorilla heard the story of his friend Bhaumāsura’s being killed by Lord Kṛṣṇa, he planned The city of Dvārakā was situated in this Kathwar Province, and because Lord Kṛṣṇa used to live in this

disturbances all over the country, sometimes he heard very sweet musical sounds from Raivataka Mountain, and saw Lord Balarāma in the midst of many beautiful young girls, enjoying their company while singing and Similarly, all the young girls present, dressed and garlanded with flowers, exhibited much beauty. Lord Balarāma seemed fully intoxicated from drinking the vāruṇī beverage, and His eyes appeared to be

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the sixty-seventh chapter of Kṛṣṇa, “The Deliverance of Dvivida