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Krṣṇa,  the Supreme Personality of Godhead
to prepare to start. He said, “Dāruka, please immediately take Me to where Śālva is staying. You may know that this Śālva is a very powerful, mysterious man. Don’t fear him in the least.” As soon as he got his orders from Lord Krṣṇa, Dāruka had Him seated on the chariot and drove very quickly toward Śālva.
The chariot of Lord Krṣṇa was marked with the flag bearing the insignia of Garuḍa, and as soon as the soldiers and warriors of the Yadu dynasty saw the flag, they could understand that Lord Krṣṇa was on the battlefield. By this time, almost all the soldiers of Śālva had been killed, but when Śālva saw that Krṣṇa had come to the battlefield, he released a great, powerful weapon which flew through the sky with a roaring sound like a great meteor. It was so bright that the whole sky lit up by its presence. But as soon as Lord Krṣṇa appeared, He tore the great weapon into hundreds and thousands of pieces by releasing His own arrow.
Lord Krṣṇa struck Śālva with sixteen arrows, and with showers of arrows. He overpowered the airplane, just as the sun in a clear sky overpowers the whole sky by an unlimited number of molecules of sunshine. Śālva struck a severe blow to Krṣṇa’s left side, where the Lord was carrying His bow, Śārṅga, and as a result the Śārṅga bow fell from Lord Krṣṇa’s hand. This dropping of the bow was indeed wonderful. Great personalities and demigods who were observing the fighting between Śalva and Krṣṇa became most perturbed by this, and they began to exclaim, “Alas! Alas!”
Śālva thought that he had become victorious, and with a roaring sound began to address Lord Krṣṇa as follows: “You rascal, Krṣṇa! You kidnapped Rukmiṇī forcibly, even in our presence. You baffled my friend Śiśupāla and married Rukmiṇī Yourself. And in the great assembly at King Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rājasūya  yajña , while my friend Śiśupāla was a little absentminded, You took an opportunity to kill him. Everyone thinks that You are a great fighter and that no one can conquer You. So now You’ll have to prove Your strength. I think that if You stand before me any longer, with my sharpened arrows I shall send You to a place wherefrom You will never return.” ”
To this Lord Krṣṇa replied, “Foolish Śālva, you are talking nonsensically. You do not know that the moment of death is already upon your head. Those who are actually heroes do not talk much. They prove their prowess by practical exhibition of chivalrous activities.” After saying this, Lord Krṣṇa, in great anger, struck Śālva on the collarbone with His club so severely that he began to bleed internally and tremble as if he were going to collapse from severe cold. Before Krṣṇa was able to strike him again, however, Śālva became invisible by his mystic power.