Bhagawatham-10.10-Banasura Vadham

Jai Sree Krishna

Banasura, the 1000 handed bahktha of Lord Siva and the son of Mahabali had a daughter named Usha and she loved Krishna's grand son Anirudha even though she had not seen him at all. Usha used to see his swaroopa by the expert painting of Chitralekha who can draw pictures of any one by her artistic hand. She also by her swayogabalam brought Anirudhan from Dwaraka to Usha's courtyard. Both Usha and Anirudha lived together for some time until one day Banasura came to know about this and he ties Anirudha by the Nagastram and kept him as a prisoner. Krishna came to know about this by Naradamaharshi's news and started to attack Banasura and his rajyam Sonithapur. Since Banasuran is the bhaktha of Siva , all the armies of Sivaganas also started battling against Krishna along with Banasura and his armies. A long battle followed. Banasura fought against Yuyudhanan , Siva's son Subramanyan fought against Krishna's son Pradyumnan and Krishna himself fought against Lord Siva.Siva got fainted by Krishna's Sammohnastram and Subramanya ran away by Pradymnan's attack.Banasura also returned defeated by Krishna and Siva Jwara also got defeated by Krishnajwara and Sivajwara started praising Krishna and promised that those who read this story will not be affected by any jwara in the future. When Banasura came back for the war with Krishan , He started breaking each of his thousand hands when Siva reqquested Krishna not to kill Bana and Krishna left him alone. Later Krishna offered shapamoksham to the Nrugaraja whonwas in the Nruga form due to a Brahmana shapam.Krishna also defeated the Paudraka Vasudeva who was acting as if he was Krishan himself. Then Krishna after leaving Dwaraka in the care of Kruthavarma and Anirudhan, along with Yadavas went to the punya thirtham of Syamanthapanchakam. Taking bath in that punya Ganga river Krishna made thwe place pavanam and after doing many Dana Dharmas He joined with the Pandavas. After killing the Jarasanthan Krishna took part in the Rajasooya yagna by Yudhishtira. Then Krishna tried to avoid the Baratha Yudha by going as Dhoothan,failed in that attempt and He sided with the Pandavas and guided them to victory in the battle of Baratham.