Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1169

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4) Śrī Kṛṣṇa bathed in pāyasa (pudding). Once Durvāsas came to Dvārakā where Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī looked after him to his heart's content. Though, at times he took only meagre food, at other times he destroyed everything he saw and created trouble. Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī served him according to schedule. One day the sage asked Kṛṣṇa to cook some pudding and it was got ready. Then the sage asked Kṛṣṇa to smear his (Kṛṣṇa) body with pudding. Kṛṣṇa did so except on his feet. After that Durvāsas got down the chariot and making Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī serve as horses himself got into and drove away in great speed into the forest. On the way he thrashed the ‘horses’ one ofter the other. Neither Kṛṣṇa nor Rukmiṇī felt sorry about this action of the sage. On reaching the forest he halted the chariot and blessed Śrī Kṛṣṇa that arrows would not hit the parts of Kṛṣṇa’s body which were smeared with the pāyasa. The spot at which the sage blessed Kṛṣṇa became famous as Varadānātīrtha in after years. It may be noted that Kṛṣṇa died by an arrow hitting his foot which was not smeared with the pāyasa. (M.B. Anuśāsana Parva, Chapter 160).