Reading Notes: Gods and Goddesses, How Krishna Went Under the Ocean

Balarama and Krishna were asked to save his teacher's only son who was killed by the ocean and it's being. The ocean became fearful as Krishna stared at it in fury so the waters parted and opened. After speaking to the sea god he was told that is was a dragon named Shankasur who lived under the ocean.  He went forward to the open ocean and the waters closed over his head. The land where he was had plants and animals that did not exist on land. He killed the the dragon but didn't find the son in his belly, he did keep the shell that he lived in and made it into a weapon. They continued on to the underworld god, Yam in search of the boy. Yam gave back the boy and so Balarama and Krishna returned with him.

Image info: The Lord Yam of the dead

Source info: Tales of Ancient India: Gods and Goddesses, Edmund Cox (1887).