From the Introduction: Once when the entire world was overburdened by the increasing military power of demons in the form of kings, mother earth assumed the shape of a cow and approached Lord Brahma for relief. Sympathetic to mother earth's lamentation, Brahma, accompanied by Lord Siva and other demigods, took the cow-shaped mother earth to the shore of the milk ocean, where he offered prayers to please Lord Visnu, who lay there on an island in transcendental ecstasy. Brahma thereafter understood the advice of Maha-Visnu, who informed him that He would appear on the surface of the earth to mitigate the burden created by the demons. The demigods, along with their wives, should appear there as associates of Lord Krsna in the family of Yadu to increase the sons and grandsons in that dynasty. Brahma informed mother earth about all this, and then he returned to his own abode…. Welcome to a world where gods and heroes walk the earth. A time unprecedented in the earths history. It is a time when the entire celestial host, from the heavenly planets to the hellish realms, converged on earth to battle for universal supremacy. The demonic forces plotted for total control: incarnating in human forms in the dynasties of kings so that they may rule the world. Those who did not take a mortal form possessed the hearts of wicked men on the battlefields and inspired them into frenzies of iniquity. The Supreme Personality of Godhead descended, with his associates, to send them back into the darkness from where they came and reinstate the true king of men to his throne of virtue. In the process the principles of religion were re-established and a new age dawned for the people of earth. It is on this stage that our heroes enter, descending from the abodes of the devas, joining the forces of the righteous to bring the malevolent to justice and grant themselves a chance of total redemption.