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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[ Canto 3, Ch. 4 ]
permitted to drink at certain occasions, so they all drank a kind of light liquor made of rice. By such drinking they became delirious and bereft of sense, so much so that they forgot their relationship with one another and used harsh words which touched the cores of each other's hearts. Drinking is so harmful that even such a highly cultured family becomes affected by intoxication and can forget themselves in a drunken state. The descendants of Vṛṣṇi and Bhoja were not expected to forget themselves in this way, but by the will of the Supreme it happened, and thus they became harsh towards one another.
TEXT 2
तेषां मैरेयदोषेण विषमीकृतचेतसाम् । निम्लोचति रवावासीद्देणूनामिव मर्दनम् ॥ २ ॥
teṣām maireyadoṣeṇa viṣamīkṛtacetasām nimlocati ravāvāsīd veṇūnāmiva mardanam
teṣām —of them;  maireya —of intoxication;  doṣeṇa —by the faults;  viṣamīkṛta —became unbalanced;  cetasām —of those of whom the minds;  nimlocati —sets;  ravau —the sun;  āsīt —takes place;  veṇūnām —of the bamboos;  iva —as;  mardanam —destruction.
TRANSLATION
As by the friction of bamboos destruction takes place, so also, at sunset, by the interaction of the faults of intoxication, all their minds became unbalanced, and destruction took place.
PURPORT
When there is need of fire in the forest, by the will of the Supreme it takes place due to friction among the bamboos. Similarly, the descendants of Yadu were all destroyed by the will of the Lord by the process of self-destruction. Just as there is no possibility of a fire's occurring deep in a forest due to human effort, so also there was no power in the universe which could vanquish the descendants of the Yadus, who were protected by the Lord. The Lord wanted them to be so destroyed, and thus they obeyed His order, as indicated by the word  tad-anujñāta .