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15. GITA
The Yadavas, then, with their wives, proceeded to Prabhasa and took up their residence there, each in the (temporary) habitation that was assigned to him, and all having an abundance of provisions consisting of edibles and drink. The Vrishnis, mixing with wine the food that had been cooked for high-souled Brahmanas, gave it away unto monkeys and apes. Those heroes of fierce energy then began their high revels, of which drinking formed the chief feature, at Prabhasa. Then a dispute arose between Satyaki and Kritavarman on the wrongs they did in the Kurukshetra War. This dispute turned into a great massacre, in which all the Yadava heroes were slain. (16,3)
Balarama sat down downhearted at the sad end of all the great Yadavas. His spirit came out of his body in the form of a large serpent i.e., Sesha Naga, the divine snake whose incarnation he was supposed to be.
Krishna found himself isolated with the consequence of all his immoral theology and isolated and dejected. He send for his friend Arjuna to take charge of the land left behind by him, who would take charge of them. As he was sitting under a tree, hidden by its leafy and outstretching branches, and composed his mind in meditation, a hunter named Jara mistook him for a deer and hit him with an arrow, one pointed with the last remaining bit of the fatal pestle. Krishna died there.
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