The Hundredth Insult

At Yudhishthira’s Rajasuya sacrifice, the Pandavas offer Krishna the first honor, water to wash his feet. Shishupala, the king of Chedi, mocks Krishna before all the assembled kings: “If this one is the lord of the universe, as this fool representeth him to be, why doth he not regard himself as a Brahmana?”

Krishna replies that he had made a promise to Shishupala’s mother: “a hundred offences (of his) were to be pardoned by me.” Then he says: “That number, ye kings, hath become full.” He cuts off Shishupala’s head with his discus.

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