Hamsa and Dibhaka drown themselves in the Yamuna
A rumor spreads that the great warrior Hamsa has been killed in battle. His companion Dibhaka, hearing this, decides he cannot live without Hamsa and drowns himself in the Yamuna. When Hamsa later learns Dibhaka is dead, he follows him into the river.
Jarasandha, the king of Magadha, was considered invincible. The Yadavas, consulting among themselves, believed that even with weapons that could kill a hundred at a time, no one could kill Jarasandha in three hundred years. The reason was not just his own might, but the two supreme warriors who stood with him: Hamsa and Dibhaka. They were the strongest of the strong, with power like that of the immortals. United with these two, Jarasandha was a force no one in the three worlds could vanquish.
During an eighteen-day battle, a rumor began to spread through the ranks: Hamsa had been killed.
Dibhaka heard the rumor. The news that Hamsa was dead meant the world held nothing more for him. He decided he could not continue to live without his companion. He went to the Yamuna river and drowned himself.
The rumor, however, was false. Hamsa, the vanquisher of enemy cities, was alive. When the news reached him — not of his own death, but of Dibhaka’s — he did not pause to question it. He did not seek revenge or rally his troops. He went to the same river, immersed himself in the Yamuna, and drowned.
With his two supreme champions dead, Jarasandha abandoned his campaign against the Yadavas. He left the land of Shurasena and returned to his own city, providing Krishna and his people a temporary respite from his relentless siege.