Kalyavana followed Lord Krishna to the cave in the mountain and saw a man lying down asleep clad with the yellow silk garment. Kalyavana thought, ‘That coward Krishna is avoiding a fight by sleeping.’ He kicked the sleeping man assuming him to be Lord Krishna. This man was King Muchukunda, who had been sleeping there for a long time. King Muchukunda ruled the Earth during the Krita Yuga and had helped the gods in the battle against demons. Then Kartik, son of Lord Shiva, took over as the general of the army of the gods. King Muchukunda had not slept for many years as he often fought against the demons to protect the gods in Heaven; he was very tired. But the Earth had changed so much during the period. Thousands of years had elapsed and there was no one on earth that King Muchukunda could relate to.
King Muchukunda
