Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.70
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.70
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7) *Gāndhārī curses Kṛṣṇa.* At the end of the battle the aggrieved Gāndhārī went to Kurukṣetra together with Kṛṣṇa and other relatives. Seeing mighty Kings on the Kaurava side lying dead like huge trees lying truncated Gāndhārī burst into tears. She knew that Śrī Kṛṣṇa was at the root of all this. Embittered she looked at Kṛṣṇa and cursed him. “Ho, Kṛṣṇa, thirtysix years from this day you will lose your sons, ministers, friends and relatives. You will become a lone walker in the forests and be killed by trickery.”