Enjoying the intimate rasa of chivalry, Krsna enjoyed the wounds Bhisma inflicted on him. Srila Prabhupada writes about Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura’s explanation of this phenomenon as follows: “…the wounds created on the body of the Lord by the sharpened arrows of Bhismadeva were as pleasing to the Lord as the biting of a fiancee who bites the body of the Lord directed by a strong sense of sex desire. Such biting by the opposite sex is never taken as a sign of enmity, even if there is a wound on the body. Therefore, the fighting as an exchange of transcendental pleasure between the Lord and His pure devotee, Sri Bhismadeva, was not at all mundane (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.9.34)