The New International Encyclopædia/Śiśupāla

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ŚIŚUPĀLA, shĭsho͞o-pä′lȧ. In Hindu legend, the sovereign of Chedi, a country situated in Central India. Although he was the cousin of Krishna (q.v.), he was his enemy, and ultimately was slain by him. The history of this enmity and the death of Siśupala form the subject of the Ṡiśupālabadha of Magha. This is a highly artificial Sanskrit epic in twenty cantos, and it dates probably from the ninth century. It has been edited several times in India, notably, with Mallinatha's commentary, by Durgaprasad and Sivadatta (3d ed., Bombay, 1902), and was translated by Fauche in the third volume of his Tétrade (Paris, 1863).