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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 77: Verses 18-30
I know you regard yourself as invincible. But if you stand before me in this fight today, I shall, with my sharp arrows, send you to the region from where people do not return." Bhagavan Sri Krsna replied : " O fool, in vain do you brag. You do not perceive Death standing before you. True heroes do not waste their words, but exhibit their prowess in battle? Saying this, Bhagavan Sri Krsna in great rage struck Salva with tremendous force on the collar-bone with His mace. It made Salva shake from head to foot and vomit blood. When the mace returned to the Lord, Salva for his part (suddenly) disappeared. Then after an hour a certain person came in, bowed with is head bent low to Sri Krsna and bursting into tears, said-" I have brought a message from Devaki. She says, " O Krsna of mighty arms, most devoted to parents, Your father has been captured and carried away by Salva, just as a butcher drags an animal to be slaughtered." Hearing this unpleasant news, Bhagavan Sri Krsna exhibited the play of human emotions.
Troubled at heart and full of compassion and filial affection like an ordinary human being, He said: " How is it that My Brother, who cannot be subdued or daunted even by gods or Asuras, has been overcome by Salva, who though a pygmy before Him has succeeded in carrying away our father ? Indeed, Providence is all-powerful." While Sri Krsna was saying this, Salva made his appearance before Him holding Vasudeva as it were, and said to Him (as follows): * 0 fool, here is your father who has brought you into being and for whom you live. I shall slay him before your eyes. Save him, if you can. " Uttering this threat, that master of magic, Salva cut off the head of that (seeming) Vasudeva and, taking it with him, withdrew into his aerial car, Saubha, which stood near him in the air. (Pariksit !) Bhagavan Sri Krsna is the embodiment of perfect wisdom by nature and has limitless power. Due to affection for his father, He remained plunged in sorrow, like an ordinary human being, for a moment. But presently He understood that it was nothing but an illusion created by Salva, who was taught this art by the Asura named Maya. As He fully recovered from the spell of Maya, Sri Krsna found that both the messenger and the body of His father had vanished from the battle-field like visions seen in a dream. Observing Salva at this moment in his flying aerial car, the Lord resolved to kill him. Pariksit, this is the version of a few Rsis, who do not care so much for consistency. Surely they forget that such statements with reference to Bhagavan Sri Krsna contradict their own statements made on other occasions.
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