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CHAPTER FIVE of families. Samudravijaya went to Sauryapura, collected seven crores of families, and set forth, accompanied by relatives. King Ugrasena followed King Samudra and all went very willingly on the road inside the Vindhya. Then King Somaka went and reported all that, which was fuel to the fire of anger, to Ardhacakrin Jarāsandha. Seeing Jarāsandha angry, his son, Kāla, said: “What are these wretched Yadus to you? Give me orders and I will kill the Yadus, having dragged them from the ends of the earth, from fire, and from the ocean. Otherwise, I shall not return."
Then Jarāsandha ordered Kāla, accompanied by five hundred kings, surrounded by a great army, (to march) against the Yadus. Kāla set out, accompanied by his brothers Yavana and Sahadeva, though restrained by unfavorable omens and inauspicious portents. Following the track of the Yadus, he came soon to the country at the foot of the Vindhya Mts., where the Yādavas were camped not far away. When the guardian-deities of Rāma and Krşņa saw that Kāla was near, they created a mountain, lofty and wide, with one door. They created a camp and army of the Yadus reduced to ashes by fire and they created one woman, weeping near the funeral-pyre.
Seeing her, Kāla asked, “ Lady, why do you weep so ?” She said: “ Terrified of Jarāsandha, all the Yadus ran away. The hero Kāla came behind them like Death and the Yadus, terrified of him, near at hand, entered the fire. The Daśārhas, Rāma, and Krşņa entered the pyre here. I, too, shall enter the fire because of the separation from relatives.” Saying this, she entered the fire.
His mind bewildered by the gods, Kāla said to Sahadeva, Yavana, and the kings: “I vowed before my father and mother that I would kill the Yadus, dragging them from fire, et cetera. Look! I too, keeping my promise, shall enter this blazing fire to kill them who entered the fire from fear of me.” With these words, carrying sword and shield, he entered the fire like a moth and died, while his own people looked on, their minds confused by the gods.
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