Reading Notes: Shri Krishna of Dwarka Part B

Death of Krishna. Source: Wikimedia

Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories, by C. A. Kincaid

Chapter 13: The Passing of Krishna

Prince Samba went with some of his friends to play a joke on Vishvamitra and other mighty sages.  Samba dressed as a woman and had his friends ask the sages for a blessing of a child.  Instead, Vishvamitra tells the boys that Samba will have a mace that will destroy the Yadava race.  When Ugrasena heard the story, he ground up the mace and threw the handle and the grounds into the ocean. Someone picked up the handle later and made an arrow with it.

Troubling times started and all of the Yadava men were sent to worship at a temple.  Instead of worshipping they drank and got into a fight.  The fight resulted in all of their deaths but Krishna and Balarama.  Daruka, who had fashioned the arrow from the mace handle, thinking Krishna was a deer shoots him in the foot.  Krishna and Daruka both ascend to heaven and the Yadavas are gone.