Abstract
This paper explores the accounts of the destruction of the Yadava clan in the Sanskrit Mahabharata and subsequent retellings in the Bhagavata Purana and in the vernacular Mahabharatas of the Northeast, Orissa and Assam. It argues that the questions posed in the Sanskrit Mahabharata about whether Krsna knew about the impending destruction of his clan and whether he might have stopped it continue to be asked in the retellings, as the episode provided a testing ground for understandings of the powers of God and the role of a Supreme Deity in human affairs.
Granoff, P