Verse 7

⁷Goading Krsna in this way with hard words, as a driver goads an elephant with hooks, he struck him on the head with his mace and roared like a lion. ⁸Though struck by the mace in that fight, the foremost of the Yadus did not move; and Krsna struck him between the breasts with the heavy Kaumodaki. ⁹His heart split open by the mace, throwing up blood from his mouth, he fell to the ground without breath, his hair and arms and legs flung wide. ¹⁰Then a light finer than the finest, and wonderful to see, entered Krsna while all beings watched, king, as it had done when the Caidya was killed. ¹¹But Viduratha, his brother, drowning in grief for his brother, came at him panting, with sword and shield, wanting to kill him.

¹²As he rushed in, Krsna took off his head with the razor-rimmed disc, best of kings, crown and earrings and all.