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KALKI INCARNATION It is said in the Kalki Purāņa that the allied forces marched against erfg8957, the king of Bhallāța city. T890 had a wife named सुशान्ता, who was a devotee of विष्णु and she advised her husband not to fight against Kalki, but gof895, like Tau wanted to gain cheaper mukti by becoming an enemy of fasut. So, although he knew that Kalki was fact, he fought with the allied armies. Both the armies were strong. Allied were strong with the armies of Avanti and others. Armies of freqh also were strong because if feqh was fTJETT, he is likely to have been helped by Vaiśāli.
The fight, according to the kalki, was a terrible one and all the heroes of the allied armies suffered defeat and kalki himself after a brave fight, was wounded and fell in a deep swoon; and in that condition he was carried by a to his harem so that his queen may have his api. Ultimately of course, f895 pledged his alliace to Kalki and married his own daughter the to kalki.
This religio-devotional description shows clearly that though the federated armies were not successful against erfah, they were, however able to contract peace with him, whereby fequ agreed to lead the allied armies and jorn the confederacy. Thus kāśi and Vaiśāli were added to the confederacy and we have already seen that both these states had a longstanding grudge against Magadh. Thus, now, both Viśākhayūpa and Sasidhvaja jointly led the allied armies under the able generalship of kalki, who, like Cāņakya of later days, seems to have been a practical politician and an accomplished warrior.
The Confederacy, thus strengthened marched against Magadha, whose capital is here called kikața (which we know was identified with Magadha). Here the names of the kings against whom the allied forces fought, are given as Jina and Sandhodani and the opponents are generally called Bauddhas. The allied armies dealt a crushing defeat to the Magadha king. Thus the cause of the allies was fully vindicated. It was both a political and a religious Conquest that they made. Buddhism met with its first check then. This, in short, is the historical background of the kalki incarnation.
- D. R. Mankad
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