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.s9.410.5

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*Krishna* sent *Dāruka* to inform *Arjuna* and tell him to come quickly, and he also dispatched *Bab hru* to protect the ladies against robbers; but as soon as *Bab hru* had proceeded to a distance, an iron club attached to the mallet of a hunter came and slew him. *Krishna* then, entering *Dvāravatī*, told his father to protect the ladies till *Arjuna* came, saying that he would practise penances with *Rāma*. When he came to *Rāma*, the latter had applied himself *tn* yoga, and from his mouth issued a huge white *Nāga* with 1,000 heads and red eyes, who proceeded to the ocean, and was received by the ocean and many celestial snakes (and many sacred rivers): *Karkotaka*, etc. (η). After *Rāma's* death *Krishna* wandered for some time, and then sat down, thinking of *Gāndhārī* (§ 619) and *Durvāsas* (§ 773c), and the destruction of the *Vrishnis*, *Andhakas*, and *Kurus*, whence he concluded that the hour [of his death] had come; he then restrained his senses [in *yoga*]; though he was the Supreme Deity, he wished to die in order to dispel all doubts, etc., and to make the words of *Durvāsas* true. The hunter *Jarā*, mistaking *Krishna* for a deer, pierced him at the heel with an arrow; coming up, he beheld a man dressed in yellow robes, rapt in *yoga*, with many arms; he became filled with fear; *Krishna* comforted him and then ascended upwards, and was received in heaven by *Indra*, etc. (θ) (XVI, 4).