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# Gopalacampu 1.34.89

Gopālacampū 1.34.89

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.34.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.krsna.gopalacampu.1.34.89)

yadi tvaṃ re kaṃsa svayam asi balī tarhi dhig amuṃ  
kathaṃ dvāre nāgaṃ kalayasi na tatra svaka-vapuḥ? |  
radābhyāṃ sa śreyān iti yadi tad āvām iva kathaṃ  
na tau gṛhnāsīti dhvanitam amukābhyāṃ sva-kalayā? || (śikhariṇī)

> "O Kaṃsa, if you are strong yourself, then fie on this:  
> why do you keep an elephant at the gate, and not your own body there?  
> If he is superior because of his two tusks, then why do you not take them  
> as we two have done?"—was this not echoed by those two by their own art? ||  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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