Samba (Krishna's son)

Samba (Sanskrit: साम्ब; IAST: sāmba) was a son of the Hindu god Krishna and his second consort, Jambavati.

[3] In the 1st century BC, there seems to be evidence for a worship of five Vrishni heroes (Balarama, Krishna, Pradyumna, Aniruddha, and Samba), due to the Mora Well Inscription found at Mora near Mathura, which apparently mentions a son of the great satrap Rajuvula, probably the satrap Sodasa and an image of Vrishni, "probably Vasudeva, and of the "Five Warriors".

A son was born soon thereafter, named Samba, the form Shiva had appeared before Krishna.

[7][8] According to Bhagavata Purana, Jambavati was the mother of Samba, Sumitra, Purujit, Shatajit, Sahasrajit, Vijaya, Chitraketu, Vasuman, Dravida and Kratu.

At the end of Kurukshetra war, all 100 of Gandhari's sons, the Kauravas, were killed by their cousins, the Pandavas, who were aided by Krishna.

[17][18] The book Mausala Parva describes the fulfillment of the curse 36 years after the end of the great war.

With Yudhisthira's realm now peaceful and prosperous, the youth of the Yadava clan have become frivolous and hedonistic.

The young man playfully pretending to be a woman claims that he is pregnant and asks the rishis to predict the gender of the baby.

In a fit of rage, he curses that Samba will give birth to an iron bolt (Gada (mace) a weapon) that will destroy his entire race.

Ugrasena ordered Samba to crush the rod into powder and cast it into the Prabhas sea.

Not having any weapons to hand, the Yadavas break off the eraká grass, which they discovered was as strong as iron, and use this to kill each other.

That same fish was caught by a hunter named Jara, who in his past life was Vali in the Ramayana.

He removed the iron piece from his catch and noticing that it had a point and arrowhead-like shape, sharpened it as such and stuck it onto the tip of one of his arrows.

The hunter Jara mistook Krishna's partly visible left foot for a deer and shot the arrow.