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opulences for a very long time, but because the king of Kāśī and his son Sudakṣiṇa were against Lord Kṛṣṇa , the viṣṇu-cakra Sudarśana (the disc weapon of Lord Kṛṣṇa) devastated the whole city by burning all The Sudarśana cakra, having thus finished his duty, came back to his Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, at Dvārakā.

The soldiers on the side of King Pauṇḍraka began to shower their weapons upon Kṛṣṇa. various kinds of tridents, clubs, poles, lances, swords, daggers and arrows, came flying in waves, and Kṛṣṇa elephants, chariots, horses and infantry belonging to the opposite party were scattered by the weapons of Kṛṣṇa dancing place of Lord Śiva at the time of the dissolution of the world, the warriors on the side of Kṛṣṇa

King Pauṇḍraka was a great warrior, and as soon as he heard of Kṛṣṇa’s attack, he came out of the city When the two kings came before Lord Kṛṣṇa to oppose Him, Kṛṣṇa saw Pauṇḍraka face to face for the first Kṛṣṇa saw that Pauṇḍraka had decorated himself with the symbols of the conch shell, disc, lotus and club yellow silken garments, and the flag on his chariot carried the symbol of Garuḍa, exactly imitating Kṛṣṇa’s When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa saw Pauṇḍraka imitating His posture and dress, He could not check His laughter, and

This narration of the devastation of Vārāṇasī by Kṛṣṇa’s disc weapon, the Sudarśana cakra, is transcendental

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the sixty-sixth chapter of Kṛṣṇa, “The Deliverance of Pauṇḍraka

When Sudakṣiṇa was encouraged by Lord Śiva in that way, he was sure that he would be able to kill Kṛṣṇa

After enjoying the loud laughter of all the members of the assembly, Kṛṣṇa replied to the messenger as

Lord Kṛṣṇa, who specifically protects His devotees, saw that the whole population of Dvārakā was most The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is all-pervading. In this way, the fiery demon was checked by the Sudarśana cakra of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and, being defeated in

At this time, Lord Kṛṣṇa told Pauṇḍraka, “Pauṇḍraka, you requested Me to give up the symbols of Lord From this statement of Kṛṣṇa’s it is clear that any rascal who advertises himself as God is the greatest Kṛṣṇa continued, “Now, Pauṇḍraka, I shall force you to give up this false representation. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa also killed the king of Kāśī with His arrows. Kṛṣṇa did this just as a hurricane carries a lotus petal here and there.

thinking himself the Supreme Lord, Pauṇḍraka sent his messenger to Dvārakā to challenge the position of Kṛṣṇa The messenger reached the royal assembly of Kṛṣṇa in Dvārakā and conveyed the message given by his master

After observing the ritualistic funeral ceremonies, he took a vow that since Kṛṣṇa was the enemy of his father, he would kill Kṛṣṇa and in this way liquidate his debt to his father. Sudakṣiṇa’s purpose was to kill Kṛṣṇa, and therefore he prayed for a specific power by which to kill

Some thought it was Kṛṣṇa’s head because Kṛṣṇa was the enemy of Kāśīrāja, and they calculated that the king of Kāśī might have thrown Kṛṣṇa’s head into the city so that the people might take pleasure in But they finally detected that the head was not Kṛṣṇa’s but that of Kāśīrāja himself.

Even in the presence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, there was such a foolish person. King Pauṇḍraka, the king of Karūṣa Province, being foolish and puffed up, sent a messenger to Lord Kṛṣṇa Lord Kṛṣṇa is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but King Pauṇḍraka directly challenged Kṛṣṇa through the messenger, who stated that Pauṇḍraka, not Kṛṣṇa, was Vāsudeva. Thus the messenger declared to Kṛṣṇa that King Pauṇḍraka, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, had descended

And after giving up this position, come and surrender unto me.

When Lord Kṛṣṇa returned to the city of Dvārakā, all the Siddhas from the heavenly planets were singing By his being killed by Kṛṣṇa, however, that offense was mitigated.

At that time, Kṛṣṇa was playing chess in the royal assembly council hall. In this way all the inhabitants of Dvārakā appealed to Lord Kṛṣṇa for protection from the fiery demon

Sudakṣiṇa was the originator, and the priests assisted him; therefore all of them were burned to ashes

The messenger carried the words of Lord Kṛṣṇa to his master, Pauṇḍraka, who patiently heard all these Without waiting any longer, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa immediately started out on His chariot to punish the rascal Because at that time he was living with his friend the king of Kāśī, Kṛṣṇa surrounded the whole city