Dwapara Yuga was about to be finished and Kali yuga was about to begin. The kalipurusha was able to conquer every place in the world except the kingdom ruled by king Parikshit.
When Parikshit came to know that kalipurusha was waiting at the boundary of his kingdom, he really went there and battled against kalipurusha. Sure enough the King won the battle and was ready to slain the kalipurusha.
At this time kalipurusha explained the King that the onset of Kali yuga was as per the rules laid out by Lord Brahma. He forget gave the details as how many year reach yuga was supposed to be and also the nature of each yuga. He said the weapons that kalipurusha was bestowed upon were poison, lust, evil, treachery, greed.
At the end, the King allowed kalipurusha to reside in five places, and use his five weapons. He gave permission that people who willingly came to these places could become the victims of the demon Kali Yuga.
The five places where those were there was
1. Alcohol drinking - weapon of poison
2. Prostitution - weapon of lust
3. Animal slaughter - weapon of evil
4. Gambling - weapon of treachery
5. Gold - weapon of greed.
Kali smartly entered into Parikshit's golden crown and spoiled his thoughts.
Parikshit entered the hut of a sage named Shamika as he was thirsty. He found the sage in deep meditation. He bowed to him several times but as there was no response. In anger, he took a dead snake and threw it around the sage's neck. Later when the sage's son, Shringin, heard of this incident he cursed the king to die of snake bite on the seventh day.
On hearing this, the king forswore the throne for his son Janamejaya and spent his last seven days, in an socially created island, which was void of snakes. All seven days he was listening to the Bhagavatham from sage Shukabrahma.
On the seventh day, the King took a lemon that was floating in the sea and cut it open. Inside the lemon was the snake king Takshaka, who bit him. Parikshita left his mortal remains behind and attained Moksha.
We learn from this though we encounter the hardest time, mere listening to the stories of God would lead us to the ultimate goal.
Jai Sri Krishna!!
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