Shri Krishna of Dwarka
Chapter 13
The passing of Krishna
Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories by C. A. Kincaid (1920)
Krishna returns to Indraprastha.
Prince Samba goes to Pindaraka with some nobles.
They come across some sages (Vishvamitra)
Samba tries to trick the sages by dressing up as a girl. The sages know that they are trying to fool them.
"The child that she will bear will be a club which will destroy all the Yadava race."
he found in the folds of his skirt an iron club."
They went back to Dwarka and told King Ugrasena. They ground the club to powder but left the handle. (Why?). Then threw the powder and handle into the sea. Iron dust sunk to the bottom and was washed ashore. Grew into rushes. The handle was swallowed by a fish as it sank. A fisherman caught that fish. Cut it open to find the handle. Sold it thinking nothing of it. Jara, hunter, made it into an arrow.
Dwarka was terror struck. There were earthquakes and demons, and storms. To calm the fears of his people, Krishna told them all to take pilgrimage. "The women, the children, and the old men should go to Shankhodhar. The men should go with me to Prabhasa. It is sacred to the goddess Saraswati. There let us bathe and worship her. In Prabhasa, too, live holy brahmins. We shall give them gifts of cows, of treasure, of land, of elephants, and of chariots, and they will pacify the gods who are angry with us."
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