Next, learn of the terrible Mausala-parva. There those tiger-like men (the heroes of the Vrishnis), invulnerable to the touch of weapons, were crushed by a brahmin's curse-rod by the very shore of the salt sea: at a feast, intoxicated by drink and driven by fate, they slew one another with stalks of eraka grass that had turned into iron clubs. Having accomplished this universal departure, Balarama and Keshava (Krishna) did not transgress the time that had come, the time that carries all away. Then Arjuna, coming to Dvaraka bereft of the Vrishni race, fell into grief and great sorrow; having honored the Lord, he performed the funeral rites over the bodies of Vasudeva (Krishna) and the great-souled Balarama, and over the chief men of the Vrishnis. Leading the people out of Dvaraka, in dire distress he beheld the powerlessness of his bow Gandiva and the disfavor of all divine weapons — the caravan was attacked by robbers, and Arjuna could not protect the Vrishni women. Seeing the impermanence of all power, he attained detachment, and moved by the word of Vyasa, he inclined toward renunciation (sannyasa). Such is the sixteenth, the Mausala-parva: eight chapters and three hundred verses.