Finally get to the story where Krishna fights Kamsa, and it doesn't happen until the very end. On top of that, it barely lasts any time at all. It actually reminds me of Ocean's Eleven in that way. The majority of the story goes over Kamsa's complicated, multi-staged plan to kill Krishna and Balarama, Krishna's brother. Of course, it all failed.
This story was actually pretty gory as compared to the earlier ones. Sure, Krishna had killed enemies before, but his time he's described as decapitating them or wring them out like a wet cloth. More than one's he pulls out his enemy's horns and kill them with them. There was just a lot of fighting in this chapter, and that seems to be the theme of the stories.
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| Krishna Fighting an Elephant taken from Bhagawat |
I think my favorite of them was when Krishna fights an elephant. He comes up on it at the entrance to Kamsa's celebration, and the elephant attacks him. Krishna dodges it and taunts and teases the elephant for a while. Then, when he tires of the fight, Krishna knocks down the elephant with a single tug of its trunk and kills it with it's own tusk.
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