#15 Mausala Parva

The Mausala Parva is the sixteenth book of the Mahabharata.

It narrates the tragic end of the Yadava dynasty. After the Kurukshetra war, the Yadavas gradually fall into quarrels among themselves. A curse and drunken brawl lead to a massacre using mace-like reeds (mausala = club). Krishna’s clan is wiped out, and Krishna himself departs from the world, marking the end of the Yadava era.

This parva shows that even the most powerful and divine-supported dynasties are not spared from fate — emphasizing the inevitability of decline and the cyclic nature of time.