Srikrishna said : O Bharata chief, O foremost of the Kurus, I went to destroy the city of Shalva; listen to the reasons thereof. O foremost of the Bharatas, at the sacrifice of Rajasuya, the heroic son of Damaghosha, the highly effulgent, the mightyarmed and the illustrious king Shishupala was killed by me, for he could not bear to see the first worship offered to me. O descendant of Bharata, having heard of his destruction, Shalva, stricken with dreadful anger, went to the empty Dvarka, myself living here.
श्रीकृष्ण उवाच शाल्वस्य नगरं सौभं गतोऽहं भरतर्षभ। निहन्तुं कौरवश्रेष्ठ तत्र मे शृणु कारणम्॥ महातेजा महाबाहुर्यः स राजा महायशाः। दमघोषात्मजो वीरः शिशुपालो मया हतः॥ यज्ञे ते भरतश्रेष्ठ राजसूयेऽर्हणां प्रति। स रोषवशमापन्नो नामृष्यत दुरात्मवान्॥ श्रुत्वा तं निहतं शाल्वस्तीव्ररोषसमन्वितः। उपायाद् द्वारकां शून्यामिहस्थे मयि भारत॥