When the royal messenger reached the city of Mahavati, he approached the king and said, “Your four horses are of divine form, radiant in auspicious brilliance.” He urged the king, “Summon those horses, O king; grant me wonder, and abandon hesitation.” Hearing these grave words, the king, though fearful and anxious, was also joyful. He gladly gave his horses, saying, “Fulfill my command.” With this, the king rejoiced, his mind absorbed in the all-pervading auspiciousness. He reflected, “Where our lives are established, there too, O Jina, yours reside.” Upon hearing these words, the powerful king Parimala responded in turn. In the presence of mighty warriors, he made a terrible oath. His royal bed, as dear as his own mother, seemed now as forbidding as the assembly of a Brahmin-slayer. When Devaki heard of this oath, she was plunged into sorrow and distress. When the twenty-fifth year arrived, Krishna’s portion turned wholly to yoga. Then, they departed for Kanyakubja, the city governed by King Jayachandra. Indula set out swiftly, leading ten thousand horsemen; Krishna’s portion, mounted on the noble horse Bindula, followed Devaki. They left the king’s prosperous village behind. With affection, they bowed to the king and explained all their reasons for departure. Devasimha described the king Jayachandra, but when hindered, Devasimha went to Krishna’s portion. Mounted swiftly on Bindula and surrounded by five hundred horses, he pressed on. Upon seeing him, the heroic Lakṣaṇa, seated atop a mighty elephant, loosed an arrow empowered by a mantra of Viṣṇu. Yet the arrow proved fruitless. Bowing to those divine feet, adorned with the marks of the thunderbolt and more, Lakṣaṇa declared, “I know you, O mighty-armed one, as the incarnation of Krishna’s power. Who else on earth could render my arrow ineffective?” Having spoken thus, together they approached King Jayachandra. To test them, the king had the two, clouded by illusion, examined. Yet the two heroes, filled with joy, playfully seized those who were sent. When Kuvalayāpīḍa was slain, the king was overcome with fear. Once the arrow was purified, Lakṣaṇa—powerful in name and deed—set forth with seven lakhs of troops and warriors wielding palm-tree weapons. With Rudravarmā, the famed king of the Gauḍa lineage, they defeated the foe within the span of a yāma and took tribute for sixteen years. Conquering the land of Magadha once more, he became known as Vijaya-kāriṇ. He obtained five crores of silver coins and, with an army of one lakh, returned to the illustrious king Kālīvarman. There, he received a tribute for twenty years and gained a crore of gold coins. The hero then journeyed to the land of camels, guarded by mighty warriors, where King Dhoyīka commanded a hundred thousand soldiers. By the command of Jagannātha, he arrived, prepared for battle. Within a single day and night, Krishna’s portion conquered the king. All that had been acquired over twenty years, including ten million gold coins, was now his. The valiant and most powerful Lakṣaṇa then went to the land of Puṇḍra. There, conquering it in a single day, he seized ten million coins. At last, he arrived at Mount Mahendra and bowed to the sage Bhārgava. Then Yogasiṃha, O Bhārgava, came there to Krishna’s portion.