Krishna and Salva
King Salva was upset on hearing about Shishupal's death. He decided to
seize the opportunity of Krishna's absence from the city of Dwarka and
destroy it.
However, Krishna knew that Shisupal's friends would avenge his death
so he rushed back to Dwarka. On reaching he found that Salva had already
caused a lot of destruction.
Flying his flag atop his chariot. Krishna raced towards the place where Salva was staying.
Seeing the bright flag, Salva's soldiers understood that something
was wrong. They immediately gathered their weapons and ran towards the
battlefield where the fight between Krishna and Salva had already begun.
Salva fired an arrow that went shooting across the sky, but Krishna
shattered it into pieces. Salva flew to the skies and started his
attack from there. In return, Krishna shot sixteen arrows one after the
other, but the carriage soared higher.
Salva, who was a master magician, then decided to disguise himself as
Devaki and fool Krishna. Krishna suddenly saw his mother approaching
and with tears rolling down her cheeks she informed Krishna about
Vasudeva's death.
Krishna was shocked to hear of his father's death and dropped all his
weapons. Seeing Krishna unarmed, Salva again attacked. Krishna was
caught unawares, but he quickly rearranged his weapons and resumed the
attack.
Finally, Krishna cut off Salva's head with the Sudarshan Chakra.
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