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became pleased with his worship and asked the king to name a boon.
He prayed for an invulnerable chariot that would carry terror to the
Yadavas. At the bidding of Siva, Maya prepared an iron chariot,
called Soubha, which could move at will to any place. Mounted on
this chariot, Salva attacked Dvaraka, with his large army. He threw
weapons, stones, trees and serpents from above and demolished walls
and gardens. The people of Dvaraka became very much oppressed.
Pradyumna and other Yadavas engaged in fight with Salva and his
army. Salva's chariot was sometimes visible and sometimes not. It
now rose high and now came low. With difficulty, Pradyumna killed
Dyumat, the general of Salva. But still the fight went on for seven
days and seven nights. Krishna had been at Hastinapura. He felt
misgivings and hurried to Dvaraka with Rama. The fight was then
going on. Krishna placed Rama in charge of the town and himself
went to fight with Salva. Salva tauntingly addressed Krishna who
gave the king a heavy blow with his club. Salva disappeared.
Instantly a man came and informed Krishna that he was a messenger
from Devaki. Salva had carried away his father Vasudeva.
Krishna asked: "How could Salva conquer Rama so as to
carry away my father?" But he had scarcely finished when Salva
appeared with somebody like Vasudeva, saying " O fool, here is your
father. I will kill him in your presence. Save him, if you can." He
then cut off the head of Vasudeva, and entered the chariot. Krishna
found this was all the Maya of Salva and in reality his father was
neither carried off nor killed. He broke the chariot Soubha with his
club. Salva left the chariot and stood upon earth, club in hand.
Krishna cut off his hands and then cut off his head with the Chakra.
DANTA VAKRA AND VIDURATHA.
SKANDHA X. CHAP. 78.
Danta-Vakra was the friend of Sisupala, Salva and Paundraka.
He came to attack Sri Krishna with club in hand and, seeing him,
exclaimed: "It is good fortune, that I see you. You are our cousin.
But still you have killed our friends and you now want to kill me. I
will therefore kill you with this club." (Sridhara gives a second mean-
ing to this Sloka. At the end of his third birth Danta Vakra was to
regain his place in Vaikuntha. Sisupala and Danta Vakra, as explain-
ed before, were Jaya and Vijaya, gate-keepers of Vaikuntha. By the
curse of the Kumaras, they incarnated as Asuras. The third and
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