Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2513

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When Prasena did not return from his hunting and was found later lying dead without the gem the news spread that the stone might have been stolen by Kṛṣṇa after killing Prasena. The slander reached the ears of Kṛṣṇa also and he went to the forest in search of the Syamantaka. He found the cave of Jāmbavān and on peeping in found the children of Jāmbavān playing with the gem. Jāmbavān attacked Kṛṣṇa and after a grim battle which lasted for several days Jāmbavān was defeated. When he knew that it was Kṛṣṇa who had defeated him he gave him along with the Syamantaka his daughter Jāmbavatī also Kṛṣṇa brought the gem and the girl to Dvārakā and gave back the gem to Satrājit. (Chapter 38, Harivaṃśa; Chapter 13, Part 8, Padma Purāṇa).