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Part Twenty-Two

Thirty-Fifth Chapter

KRISHNA ORGANISING FOR YAJNA

In Dwarka, Govind sent messengers to all the members of the Yadu clan to come and see him. In a grand assembly, he apprised them of the coming yajna. He told them that his loving father had decided to have a yajna cum charity event. It is on the day of the solar eclipse, and he asked them to make sure they go to attend it.

Krishna then, sent for his youngest uncle Satyaki [Satyaki, also known as Yuyudhan, a Yadav prince belonging to the same Vrishni sub-clan as Sri Krishna. He was a great warrior and defeated Karna in the Mahabharat War].

Krishna requested him to kindly go to the palace of Kuber [King of Yakshas and god of wealth] at Alkapuri and ask him with great humility to provide all the expenses that would accrue from this yajna and charity work. And that Kuber should open the top of Sumeru. There should be no Shortage of gold, and he himself should oversee that there is no shortage of funds for the yajna.

[Kuber is the god of wealth, and the god-king of the semi-divine Yakshas in Hindu mythology. Alkapuri near Kailash is the home of Kuber, the god king of wealth. It is a five-peaked mountain. It is in the Gangotri Glacier region of Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India. It is filled with gold, silver crystals, lazuli, [a kind of gem] and so on.

“Oh yes. One more thing. Ask him to kindly send his personal chariot pushpak to me. I can use it for transporting many goods, wares, and other commodities to Kurukshetra.”

Very soon, Satyaki set up Krishna’s chariot Vijay and along with his personal weapons, he went to see Kuber. There, he humbly presented a formal invitation to Kuber and gave him Krishna’s memorandum.

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