History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c91.207

v7.c91.207

¹⁵⁸⁷ कृत्वापि बहुशः पापं नरा मोहसमन्विताः । न यान्ति नरकं नत्वा सर्वपापहरं हरिम् ॥ शाठ्येनापि नरा नित्यं ये स्मरन्ति जनार्दनम् । तेपि यान्ति तनुं त्यक्त्वा विष्णूलोकमनामयम् ॥ अत्यन्तक्रोधसक्तोऽपि कदाचित्कीर्तयेद्धरिम् । सोपि दोषक्षयान्मुक्तिं लभेच्चेदिपतिर्यथा ॥ ब्रह्म 216. 87-89. चेदिपति appears to refer to शिशुपाल, whose story occurs in सभापर्व chapters 43-45 He was the sister's son of Kṛṣṇa who had promised to forgive 100 *aparādhas* of his and at last killed him at the Rājasūya sacrifice of Yudhiṣṭhira. The story of शिशुपाल also occurs in विष्णुपु० IV 15 1-17 and it is said that शिशुपाल always took the name of Kṛṣṇa and always thought of him though as an enemy, and therefore he ultimately reached the Lord 'अयं हि भगवान् कीर्तितश्च संस्मृतश्च द्वेषानुबन्धेनापि अखिलसुरासुरादिदुर्लभं फलं प्रयच्छति किमुत सम्यग्भक्तिमतामपीति ।' 17.