An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s9.410.1

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[Mausalaparvan] ("the section relating to the battle with clubs," the 16th of the great and the 98th of the minor parvans of Mbhhr.; cf. Mausala). § 793: Vaiçampāyana said: When the 36th year [after the great battle] was reached, Yudhishṭhira beheld many unusual portents (specification). A little while afterwards he heard of the wholesale carnage of the Vṛṣhṇis in a battle with clubs, where only Kṛṣhṇa and Rāma had escaped with life; he summoned his brothers and took counsel with them; they were filled with grief; the death of Kṛṣhṇa they could not believe. Janamejaya inquired about the particulars of the destruction of the Vṛṣhṇis and Andhakas. Vaiçampāyana said: ** When the 36th year . . . (ef. above). Asked by Janamejaya, cursed by whom the Vṛṣhṇis, etc. (a), met with destruction, Vaiçampāyana said: Sāraṇa, etc., saw Viçvāmitra, Kaṇva, and Nārada arrived at Dvārakā; they disguised Çamba as a woman, calling her the wife of Babhru, and asked the ascetics what [sort of child] this one would bring forth. The ascetics answered: "This Çamba will bring forth a terrible iron club for the destruction of the Vṛṣhṇis and Andhakas, except Rāma (who will enter the ocean) and Kṛṣhṇa (whom Jarā will pierce while lying on the ground)." Then they went to Kṛṣhṇa. Informed of what had taken place, Kṛṣhṇa summoned all the Vṛṣhṇis and told them of it, but did not try to annul the curse. The next day Çamba actually brought forth an iron club.