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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Maha Shakuni


Shakuni, the younger brother of the demon Shakatasura, whom Krishna killed in Vrindavan. Bhadrashva asked Pradyumna to kill Sakuni, the hated enemy of the demigods. And then a fierce battle ensued between the Yadavas and Daityas. After a long battle in which many demons died, the demon King Shakuni appeared before Pradyumna. By simply pulling back and releasing the string of his bow, made by demon Maya, Shakuni forced many Yadavas to fall on the field from the terrible sound of his bowstring. And then a fierce battle began between Shakuni and Pradyumna. 

  1. When Shakuni used Rauravastra, created by Maya Danava, countless venomous snakes and scorpions crawled from all sides and began to sting the Yadava soldiers. In response, Pradyumna released Garudastra so that millions of huge birds very quickly devoured all the snakes and scorpions. 
  2. Shakuni then summoned countless goblins and ghosts that spewed flames. Pradyumna used the weapon Satvastra, summoning the associates of Lord Vishnu, who immediately dispelled the demon's illusion. This battle lasted a long time. 
  3. When Shakuni applied the rakshasa illusion, Pradyumna, in contrast, applied Narasimhastra. Lord Nrsimha appeared on the battlefield in terrifying form and began to grab the demons, throw them under His feet and trample mercilessly. With the destruction of this illusion the demon Shakuni disappeared. 
  4. Then with the help of his mystical power Shakuni created the illusion of destruction of the universe, plunging everything into a universal flood. At this time, the Yadavas decided that they were finished. Then Pradyumna put Krishnastra on the string of his bow, at once everything around was lit up with a dazzling radiance, and Lord Krishna appeared there in His effulgent four-armed form as a Lord of Dvaraka. Seeing the Lord, all the Yadavas revived, and Shakuni fled in fear from the battlefield.

Lord Krishna told the Yadavas: “Shoot arrows at Shakuni's body to keep it in the sky.
  1. "Samba shot arrows at the Shakuni's falling body, forcing him to rise up. Then when the body is again began to fall, 
  2. Arjuna released his arrows, throwing him high in the sky by ten thousand yojanas. So, one by one, the heroes of Yadava did not allow Shakuni's body to fall to the ground. 
  3. When Pradyumna with his arrows threw back Shakuni's headless body for million yojanas to the sky, nevertheless, after a while it began to fall again. 
  4. Seeing this, Krishna fired an arrow that caught the Shakuni's body and carried him ten million yojanas in height, and then the demon's body fell into the ocean. 
So this demon left the body from which a spiritual spark came out, flew around the Lord Krsna and entered His transcendental body.

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