Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.897

c5.897

Enraged by these, sage Durvāsas went to Dvārakā taking the destroyed loin-cloth and other articles. Śrī Kṛṣṇa and his courtiers stood up and saluted him when they saw Durvāsas coming like saṁhārarudra. On hearing the news, Śrī Kṛṣṇa assured him that he would kill Haṁsa and Dibhaka and sent him back pacified. Haṁsa and Dibhaka began a rājasūya. They sent Janārdana to Śrī Kṛṣṇa with the message that he should either fight with them or give them tribute (in the form of money). Janārdana went to Dvārakā, just as Akrūra, a devotee of Viṣṇu, went to Ambāḍi with the message of Kaṁsa. Immediately Kṛṣṇa and Balabhadra with the chief Ministers like Sātyaki went to Sālva. In the war that followed Śrī Kṛṣṇa killed Haṁsa and Bala. Bhadrarāma killed Dibhaka. (M.B. Bhaviṣya Parva, Chapter 103-129).