मौसलपर्व

Parva summary

Gandhari's curse ripens. A young Yadava princess gives birth to an iron club (musala). The Yadavas, drunk at Prabhasa, quarrel; the musala is ground to dust and washes ashore as reeds, which under Yadava hands become fatal weapons. The clan kills itself in a single afternoon brawl. Krishna performs the funeral rites of his own kin, then, sitting under a tree, is shot in the foot by the hunter Jara mistaking the sole for a deer; Krishna leaves his body. Balarama merges into the sea as the great serpent. Arjuna, arriving too late, escorts the Yadava widows to Hastinapura — and finds his Gandiva powerless, unable to defend them from common bandits.