5 km from Somnath temple is another venerable spit known as Bhalka Tirth.
It is here that the arrow of a poacher named Jara hit Shri Krishna and fatally wounded him
Shri Krishna was resting in meditation pose under a peepal tree when the poacher mistook his foot fir a deer and shot an arrow from a distance.
An ancient peepal grows here
According to legend Jara was the reincarnation of Vali. Vali was killed by Lord Rama ( described in the Ramayana). According to the beliefs of ISKCON, as described to me, Lord Rama had promised Vali that he would get a chance to avenge his unjust murder in another birth.
Thus Lord Krishna as the avatar of Lord Rama was killed by Jara.
It is also known as Dehotsarga, according to Diana L Eck, a term that literally means the place where Krishna “gave up his body”
She writes in her book” India: A Sacred Geography “, Krishna was shot through the foot, hand, and heart by the single arrow of a hunter named Jara. Krishna was reclining there, so they say, and Jara mistook his reddish foot for a deer and released his arrow. There Krishna died.”
Another interesting thing I found was that ladies from local families come and do seva in the temple by turns.
They even offered me tea and biscuits which they bring from home.