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Prophecy about destruction of Dvārakā (1-18).
One day at the end of a sermon Janardana, humble-minded, bowed to Neminatha, his hands folded respectfully, and asked: How will the destruction of Dvārakā, of the Yadus, and of myself take place? Made by others for some reason or by themselves in course of time?"
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CHAPTER XI
BURNING OF DVĀRAKĀ AND THE DEATH OF KRSNA
The Blessed One said: In a hermitage outside Sauryapura there was a well known leading ascetic, named Parāśara. He went to an island in the Yamuna and enjoyed a girl of low family; and a son was born to them named Dvaipāyana. A mendicant, a celibate, self-controlled, living there from friendship for the Yadus, he will be attacked by Samba and others blind from wine. Angry, he will burn the city Dvāraka with the Yadus. Your death will take place at the hand of your brother, Jarākumāra."
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"He, alas! is a coal to the family," with this impure thought in their hearts, Jarākumāra was looked at by all the Yadus. Thinking: "Why should I, the son of Vasudeva, be the murderer of my brother? I will try by all means to make that false," Jara's son got up, bowed to Nemi and, carrying two quivers and a bow, took up a residence in the forest to protect Kṛṣṇa. Dvaipayana heard the Lord's prediction from the people's talk and became a forest-dweller to protect Dvārakā and the Yadus.
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Kṛṣṇa bowed to the Master, entered Dvārakā and, with the thought, "This calamity would originate from wine," prohibited wine. At Kṛṣṇa's command all the people of Dvaravati brought the wine previously made and abandoned it, like water of the house-streams, in stone pits in the cave
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