Part 4: Birth of Subhūma

King Bhūpāla’s soul completed its life-term, fell from Mahāśukra, and descended into Tārā’s womb. One day Kṛtavīrya heard his father’s story from his mother and went and killed Jamadagni, like a snake that had been pointed out. Rāma was angered at his father’s murder, went quickly to Hastināpura and killed Kṛtavīrya. What is at a great distance from Yama? The son of Jamadagni established himself in the kingdom. For sovereignty is dependent on power. Succession and lack of succession are not authority. Kṛtavīrya’s queen left the city conquered by Rāma, though she was pregnant, and went to a hermitage of ascetics, like a doe from a forest that is scented with tigers. The compassionate ascetics put her, like a deposit, in an underground room, and protected her from cruel Paraśurāma. A son, who had been indicated by the fourteen great dreams, was born to her. Because he took ground easily, he was named Subhūma.^[1]