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Hmm, Krishna's attack may have been before the attack on Dwarka. The attack on DWARKA is too clearly stated in every version for it to be an interpolation.

I read the detailed story. Shalwa attacked Dwaraka while Rajasuya was going on. Krishna attacked Shalwa while DS was happening. I see no chances of Dury planning DS while Rajasuya was going on. Shakuni & Dury planned DS only after they returned HP. But Shalwa had already destroyed Dwaraka by then. So that cannot be a planning of Dury.

It seems that Shalva got a flying city from Shiva as a boon and used that to attack Dwaraka. Krishna destroyed that city.

Originally posted by: Brahmaputra

I read the detailed story. Shalwa attacked Dwaraka while Rajasuya was going on. Krishna attacked Shalwa while DS was happening. I see no chances of Dury planning DS while Rajasuya was going on. Shakuni & Dury planned DS only after they returned HP. But Shalwa had already destroyed Dwaraka by then. So that cannot be a planning of Dury.

Yes Diala, Dury was not intelligent enough to plan such a thing. Had it been Krishna, I would have agreed.😉

Not certain about that Jamy. Because Shalwa was clearly present at Rajasuya and is shown to be angry at Shishupal's death.

@ Anu - How is it possible for Shalwa to attack Dwaraka, while Rajasuya was going on, if he was present during the ceremony? Can one actually slip away.

Shalwa must have been in IP as a guest, so he wouldn't have bought an army with him. In order to destroy Dwaraka, he would have had to either inform his army to meet him somewhere midway or actually go back to his kigdom and proceed towards Dwaraka with his army. We have to take into account the distance between IP and dwaraka too, right.

I was thinking maybe Krishna stayed on in IP after Rajasuya for sometime and thats when Shalwa attacks Dwaraka and that's the same time Dury plans for the DS.

When Krishna hears of the news, immediately dispatches to a battle with Shalwa, during which time the Ps and P go to HP for the ill fated DS.

Krishna himself says that Shalwa had destroyed Dwaraka fully by the time he returned from Raja suya. Had it been a plan by Duryodhana, why it is not mentioned in the book? MB has 'that wicked wretch' as much as it has 'O slayer of Madhu'... That attack & plan are not anything bigger than DS, right?

Shalwa is deffo present at Rajasuya. And Krishna did stay back for sometime afterward.