Karna brought down Krsna's crown by his arrow resembling the face of the serpent. Enraged at this Arjuna killed Karna.
DARUKA I.
1) Sri Krsna's charioteer. In the Mahabharata, we come across few persons who excel Daruka in their skill as charioteers. We find the following details about him in the Mahabharata :-
1) When Sri Krsna fought against King Salva, Daruka was over-whelmed by Salva's arrows. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 21, Verse 5).
2) At the time of the battle at Kuruksetra, hearing the sound of Sri Krsna's conch-shell, Daruka drove his chariot and brought it before Sri Krsna. (M.B. Drona Parva, Chapter 147, Verse 45).
3) When Satyaki fought with Karna, Daruka drove Satyaki's chariot. At that time he proved his extraordinary skill in charioteering. (M.B. Drona Par'va, Chapter 147, Verse 54).
4) After being attended by Daruka, Sri Krsna's chariot horses flew up into the Heavens. (M.B. Mausala Parva, Chapter 3, Verse 5).
5) It was Daruka who informed the Pandavas that the Yaduvamsa had perished. On his return, he accompanied Arjuna in his journey to Dvaraka. (M.B. Mausala Parva, Chapter 5).
2) Following Krsna's giving up of His body and the destruction, due to mutual fights, of the Yadavas, Vasudeva, Rohini and Devaki also gave up their lives.' (Bhagavata, Ekadasa Skandha, Chapter 31, Verses 18, 19).
Sri Krsna bathed in payasa (pudding). Once Durvasas came to Dvaraka where Krsna and Rukmini looked after him to his heart's content. Though, at times he took only meagre food, at other times he destroyed everything he saw and created. trouble. Krsna and Rukmini served him according to schedule. One day the sage asked Krsna to cook some pudding and it was got ready. Then the sage asked Krsna to smear his (Krsna) body with pudding. Krsna did so except on His Feet. After that Durvasas got down the chariot and making Krsna and Rukmini serve as horses himself got into it and'drove away in great speed into the forest. On the way he thrashed the `horses' one ofter the other. Neither Kxsna nor Rukmini felt sorry about this action of the sage. On reaching the forest he halted the chariot and blessed Sri Krsna that arrows would not hit the parts of Krsna's body which were smeared with the payasa. The spot at which the sage blessed Krsna became famous as Varadanatirtha in after years. It may be noted that Krsna died by an arrow hitting His Foot which was not smeared with the payasa. (M.B. Anusasana Parva, Chapter 160).
4) Narada became a woman. While staying once with Krsna at Dvaraka, Narada and the former went out on a tour in an aerial chariot. On the way they saw a stream and Krsna stopped the chariot there as Narada wanted to quench his thirst at the stream. Narada drank water from the stream disobeying Krsna's injunction that he should bathe before drinking water, and lo! the next moment Narada was turned into a woman and when `she' looked around neither Krsna nor the chariot was to be seen. She wandered about in the forest and at last reached an asrama. When the Rsi of the asrama awoke from his samadhi he saw standing before him a beautiful woman who requested him to accept her as his disciple. He readily granted her request. The preceptor married the disciple and in due course of time she became the mother of sixty children. One day all the sixty children and their father expired together. The grief-stricken widow felt`too weak to perform the obsequies of the dead. An extraordinary hunger also held her in its grips. She raised her hand to pluck a fruit from the mango tree that stood nearby but could not reach the mango above. She placed together the corpses one on the other, mounted upon the heap of dead bodies and plucked the mango-fruit Immediatelv a brahmin arrived on the spot and exhorted the widow on the impropriety of taking food without bathing after the death of husband and children. Then the widow entered the stream and dived in its waters holding above water the hand in which was held the mango, and to ? it was Narada who came out from the water. Only the hand, which had been held above water and did not therefore get wet, remained like that of a woman with bangles thereon. The brahmin, who stood thereon the banks of the stream transformed himself into Krsna. As ordered by Krsna Narada again dived with the whoie of his body in the water when the hand also turned into that of a man. The mango held in the hand turned into an excellent Vina. And Krsna told Narada: "The Rsi who lived with you as your husband and who is no more is Kalapurusa; and the sixty children are years Prabhava, Vibhava etc.Birth. Kunti was the sister of Sri Krsna's father Vasudeva. Her real name was Prtha. Vasudeva and Prtha were the children of King ugrasena of the Yadava dynasty. King Kuntibhoja was the son of Surasena's sister. He had no issues. Surasena had promised to give the daughter first born to him as the adopted daughter of Kuntibhoja, and accordingly his first-born daughter Prtha was given to Kuntibhoja, and Kunti was brought up in his palace. From that day onwards Prtha came to be known as Kunti. (Adi Parva, Chapter 111) .