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While Śālva’s men were thus crying, the demigods from the heavenly planets showered flowers on Kṛṣṇa that very moment, other friends of Śiśupāla, such as Dantavakra, appeared on the scene to fight with Kṛṣṇa When Dantavakra appeared before Lord Kṛṣṇa, he was extremely angry.

Lord Kṛṣṇa struck Śālva with sixteen arrows, and with showers of arrows He overpowered the airplane, Śālva struck a severe blow to Kṛṣṇa’s left side, where the Lord carried His bow, Śārṅga, and as a result the Śārṅga bow fell from Lord Kṛṣṇa’s hand. Great personalities and demigods who were observing the fighting between Śālva and Kṛṣṇa were most perturbed

Therefore he refreshed himself by washing his mouth and hands, and after arming himself properly with bows and arrows, he asked his charioteer to take him near the place where Śālva’s commander in chief Appearing on the battlefield, Pradyumna immediately stopped him and, smiling, shot eight arrows at him : with four arrows he killed Dyumān’s four horses, and with one arrow his chariot driver, with another arrow he cut his bow in two, with another he cut his flag to pieces, and with the last he severed his

Within a few moments, a mysterious, unknown man came before Lord Kṛṣṇa. When Lord Kṛṣṇa heard this unfortunate news from the unknown man, He at first became most perturbed,

While the fight was going on in the city of Dvārakā, Kṛṣṇa was staying at Indraprastha with the Pāṇḍavas When Lord Kṛṣṇa understood that there was great danger in the city of Dvārakā, He took permission from

Kṛṣṇa’s reaction is a controversial point among great authorities and saintly persons. Actually, it is not at all possible that Lord Kṛṣṇa was misled by the mystic jugglery of Śālva. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate goal of life for such saintly persons. How then could Kṛṣṇa have been bewildered by the mystic jugglery of Śālva? The conclusion is that Lord Kṛṣṇa’s bewilderment was another opulence of His supreme personality.

Śālva thought that he had become victorious, and with a roaring sound he addressed Lord Kṛṣṇa as follows : “You rascal, Kṛṣṇa!

When Śālva thought that Kṛṣṇa had been bewildered by his mystic representations, he became encouraged Lord Kṛṣṇa, by hurling His arrows with unfathomable strength, injured Śālva, whose armor, bow and jeweled With a crashing blow from Kṛṣṇa’s club, Śālva’s wonderful airplane burst into pieces and fell into the He again rushed toward Lord Kṛṣṇa. When Śālva ran swiftly to attack Kṛṣṇa with his club, Lord Kṛṣṇa cut off his hand, which fell to the

On the other fronts, heroes like Gada, Sātyaki and Sāmba were killing the soldiers of Śālva. The soldiers staying with Śālva in the airplane were also killed in the fighting, and they fell into

The chariot of Lord Kṛṣṇa was marked with the flag bearing the insignia of Garuḍa, and as soon as the soldiers and warriors of the Yadu dynasty saw the flag, they could understand that Lord Kṛṣṇa was on By this time, almost all the soldiers of Śālva had been killed, but when Śālva saw that Kṛṣṇa had come But as soon as Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared, He tore the great weapon into hundreds and thousands of pieces by

Śālva addressed Kṛṣṇa, “You rascal, Kṛṣṇa! Look. The mystic juggler Śālva, speaking in this way before Lord Kṛṣṇa, immediately cut off the head of the Lord Kṛṣṇa is the self-sufficient Supreme Personality of Godhead, yet because He was playing the role

Lord Kṛṣṇa began to think that while He was staying in Hastināpura with Balarāma after the killing of On reaching Dvārakā, Lord Kṛṣṇa saw that the whole city was greatly endangered. As soon as he got his orders from Lord Kṛṣṇa, Dāruka had Him seated on the chariot and drove very quickly

To this Lord Kṛṣṇa replied, “Foolish Śālva, you are talking nonsensically. After saying this, Lord Kṛṣṇa, in great anger, struck Śālva on the collarbone with His club so severely Before Kṛṣṇa was able to strike him again, however, Śālva became invisible by his mystic power.

While Śrī Kṛṣṇa was thinking like this, Śālva brought before Him in custody a man exactly resembling

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the seventy-seventh chapter of Kṛṣṇa, “The Deliverance of Śālva