|| Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya||

Chapter – 273 – The legend of Lord Krishna -  124

Bhrihathratha/Jarasandha’s father had two wives; the couples had no offspring for quite some time.  Thus, a Puthrakameshti Yaga was performed and the porridge from the sacrificial fire was handed to the King was given to two wives.  They have consumed an equal portion of the porridge and in due course of time, they both got pregnant with a child.  Finally, the two queens delivered a child that had equal halves of the body.  They were alarmed and handed the infant to female attendants in the palace.  They took the infant and discarded in the woods.  There was a woman spirit Jara wandering in the woods searching for food, found two equal halves of the infant, she took the children, and made an effort to join them out of curiosity.  Alas! The infant started crying loudly, even though she had approached the infant to consume it, seeing the loveliness of the child she refused to harm the child.  She fed the child with her bosom milk, she understood the child is not an ordinary one, it had a divine symbol of the royal family.  Thus Jara brought the infant to the palace of King Bhrihathratha who was already mourning at the death of his child.  He was highly pleased and asked the queens to receive the infant from Jara, immediately the two queens realized that it was their own child.  Eventually, the queens narrated all that happened to the King; later the child was named after Jara as a mark of gratitude. Krishna advised Beema who was already exhausted after several days of dual fight with Jarasandha, he patted the body of Vrikodhara affectionately, soon he regained usual energy and instructed him that Jarasandha cannot be killed; Bheema should tear open his body into equal halves.  The duo fight began the next day; Krishna who was closely watching the movements of Beema took a delicate dried stick and rip opened into two equal halves, in this way he reminded Beema how to kill Jarasandha.  Beema pushed him down on the floor and ripped the body of Jarasandha holding one of his legs.  In this way, Jarasandha was killed in the fierce fight with Bheema.  The deities showered flowers on the supreme Lord who is Bhoothabhavana.  Sahadeva who is the son of Jarasandha was crowned as the King of Magadha.   The twenty thousands of Kings who were imprisoned by Jarasandha were released from the prison.  The Kings, who were taking pleasure in the royal comforts, have gone through extreme hardships in the prison without food or water, not even the facilities to wash their own excreta or body parts; they were looked like skeletons without food.  They witnessed the supreme Lord who is adorned in magnificent ornaments, crown, armlets, waist ornaments, Noopura, Srivathsam, Kausthubham, and Vanamala, attired in majestic yellow silk garment, and has a pleasing smile on the face, four arms holding Shankha, Chakra, Gadha Padham,  stunningly beautiful appearance of Janardhana, they immediately forgot all their struggles, and attained immense peace.