How Kamsa conquered Kuvalayapida & married Asti & Prapti

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Sri Narada said: In Ugrasena's wife the demon Kalanemi attained

another demonic birth. Even in childhood he would regularly fight

with great wrestlers.

 

Wishing to conquer all directions, Jarasandha, the king of

Magadha, set his royal camp at different places by the Yamuna's

shore.

 

Then the elephant Kuvalayapida, who was strong as thousands

of other elephants, became angry, broke his chains, and ran from

the royal camp.

 

It ran from the royal camp to the mountains and entered an

arena where Kamsa was fighting.

 

When wrestlers fled and the elephant approached him, Kamsa

grabbed its trunk and threw it to the gorund.

 

Again grabbing it, Kamsa threw it into Jarasandha's army

eighty miles away.

 

Pleased by seeing this amazing strength, the king of Magadha

gave his two daughters, Asti and Prapti, as well as that

elephant, to Kamsa.

 

For a wedding present Jarasandha gave a hundred million

horses, a hundred thousand elephants, three hundred thousand

chariots, and ten thousand maidservants.

 

>From Garga Samhita