DVIVIDA GORILLA
Srila Jiva Gosvami points out some interesting facts about the ape Dvivida. Although Dvivida was an associate of Lord Ramacandra’s, he later became corrupted by bad association with the demon Naraka, as stated here: narakasya sakha. This bad association was the reaction for an offense Dvivida had committed when, being proud of his strength, he disrespected Lord Ramacandra’s brother Laksmana and others. Those who worship Lord Ramacandra sometimes chant hymns addressed to Mainda and Dvivida, who are attendant deities of the Lord. According to Srila Jiva Gosvami, the Mainda and Dvivida mentioned in this verse are empowered expansions of these deities, who are residents of Lord Ramacandra’s Vaikuntha domain.
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura concurs with Srila Jiva Gosvami’s view that Dvivida was ruined by bad association, which was a punishment for his having disrespected Sriman Laksmana. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti states, however, that the Mainda and Dvivida mentioned here are actually the eternally liberated devotees addressed as attendant deities during the worship of Lord Ramacandra. The Lord arranged their degradation, he says, to show the evil of the bad association that results from offending great personalities. Thus Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti compares the fall of Dvivida and Mainda to that of Jaya and Vijaya.
Friend of Naraka. Harassing area. Showed rear end. Kilakila. Balarama throws rock — misses. Dvivida grabs Lord’s bottle of varuni. Balarama took plow and club to kill him, but Dvivida took a sala tree and hit Lord on head. Lord unaffected. Lord hit him on head with club. Struck on the skull by the Lord’s club, Dvivida became brilliantly decorated by the outpour of blood, like a mountain beautified by red oxide. Ignoring the wound, Dvivida uprooted another tree, stripped it of leaves by brute force and struck the Lord again. Now enraged, Lord Balarama shattered the tree into hundreds of pieces, upon which Dvivida grabbed yet another tree and furiously hit the Lord again. This tree, too, the Lord smashed into hundreds of pieces.
Uproots trees till none left. Then hurls rocks at Lord. Lord hit them with club and pulverized them. Then Dvivida rushed at Balarama and started hitting Him with fists. Lord hit him on collarbone and he fell down, vomiting blood, and died.
KILLING OF ROMARHARShANA SUTA
1. Battle of Kuruksetra beginning. Lord Balarama wants to avoid. Goes to Naimasaranya and finds sages having big meeting. They greet Him and offer Him a seat, but then He sees that Romaharsana is still sitting. He thinks about it and then remembers the unqualified (pratiloma) background of Romaharsana (his father was a ksatriya and his mother a brahmana), and decides he should be killed. So kills him with kusa grass.
2. Brahmanas protest that they had give a long life. Balarama offers to bring him back to life, but they say that that would contradict the Lord’s desire that he be killed. So Lord Balarama arranges that his son take over, as there is no difference between father and son.
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