Therefore, O Lord of Vaikuṇṭha, please kill this sinful hunter of animals immediately so he may not again commit such offenses against saintly persons. “Fortunately, I have no pain in my foot. But you, with intention of violence, shot the arrow.” In response, the hunter speaks this verse. Therefore, please kill me immediately. The following description was previously given: teṣāṁ maireya-doṣeṇa viṣamīkṛta-cetasām nimlocati ravāv āsīd veṇūnām iva mardanam As the sun was setting, with consciousness distorted by intoxication of liquor, they destroyed each other, just as bamboos by mutual friction start a fire and destroy the whole forest. bhagavān svātma-māyāyā gatiṁ tām avalokya saḥ sarasvatīm upaspṛśya vṛkṣa-mūlam upāviśat Seeing this action of his māyā, Kṛṣṇa, sipping the water of the Sarasvatī River, sat down under a tree. SB 3.4.2-3 According to the Third Canto, when the sun was setting and the Yadus had killed each other in battle, the Lord sat down on the bank of the Sarasvatī River. Then the hunter approached to kill a deer. But this is not possible. If 560,000,000 Yadus were suddenly killed in battle at that place, there would be a river of blood and great confusion of noise. How would it be possible for the hunter to arrive there to kill a deer? How would a deer, fearful in nature, remain in that place? Therefore this killing of the Yadus was actually false. However, the Lord made Arjuna and others believe it, in order to increase the prema in karunā-rasa of his devotees like Yudhiṣṭhira and to make them give up this world. And for others, he did this to increase the wrong philosophy so that dharma would be stifled. Actually, after the devatās had drunk wine and disappeared, the hunter came to that place which was without sound and people. (The battle was an illusion.)