Samba's pregnancy prank and the iron bolt that ended the Yadavas

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The iron bolt's last fragment became the arrowhead that killed Krishna.

Krishna's son Samba dresses as a pregnant woman and asks visiting sages the child's sex. A sage sees through the prank and curses that Samba will bear an iron bolt that destroys the clan. The bolt is ground to powder and thrown into the sea at Prabhasa, liquor is banned; a fish swallows a piece, a hunter later finds it. In the drunken brawl after a pilgrimage the Yadavas fight with eraka grass that turns to iron.

Who: Samba, Krishna, Yadavas, Jara

Bound to

Gandhari's curse: 36 years and the Yadavas die curse→payoff

Krishna's death by the hunter Jara causes

Balarāma Leaves the World curse

Places: Prabhasa, Somnath, Gujarat

Where this comes from

commentary · Wikipedia: Mausala Parva (cites Ganguli, Debroy)

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