Krishna’s Birth
Krishna's Birth.
This story starts with a man named Yadu. who came down to a place which is presently named as Mathura. Many peoples from various tribes lived there, none of them believied in having a king. They were ruled by a council. Yadu got married to woman from Naga Tribe as he has been cursedby his father that he will never become king, so he joined the governing Council. Further Yadu became the Chief Of The Council and all the tribes living there together known to be called as THE YADAVAS.
After few generations Vasudev was born, Vasudeva’s sisters were Preetha and Srutadevi. Preetha was given in adoption to her uncle Kuntibhoj. He loved this girl so much that he started calling her by the name KUNTI instead Preetha.
vasudev had two wives- Rohini and Devaki. Devaki had a brother named KANSA. he was born out of a Rape.Tradition and the dharma of the day was, it does not matter how a child was born, if a child was born to a mother who belongs to a certain clan he became a legitimate part of that clan. Yadavas rejected Kansa. They refused to include him in the Governing council though he was a great warrior because he was vulgar in his ways.But he haa friend named JARASANDHA he was the king in East. with the support from Jarasandha, Kansa started gathering number of people’s around him and for the first time in the history he dismissed the council and claimed himself the King.
Becoming the King he had undisputed power.People suffered a lot .Because Jarasandha was a very big force they couldnt do any thing. As Kansa ruled went on , he was cursed that the Devakis eight child will kill him. Hearing this he imprisoned both Vasudev and Devaki.as each child was born kansa hold his hands and legs and smash it on the floor.When the seventh child came, Vasudeva managed to smuggle it out and replace it with a stillborn child that they found elsewhere. This seventh child was smuggled across the Yamuna river to Gokula and given to Rohini, the other wife of Vasudeva. The name of this child was Balarama.
When the eighth child was born ,with the help of occult people they managed to put the guards to sleep. Vasudev took this child across the river Gokula and handed this male child to yashoda ,nanda’s wife .and he took the newly born female child of Nanda with him.
Kamsa came the morning after, Devaki pleaded, “It’s just a girl. It is not a boy who is going to grow up and kill you, this is a girl. She will get married and go away. Please spare her life.” Kamsa replied, “Nothing doing, why take a chance?” He just picked up the infant, twirled her, and threw it up.but the girl instead of falling down took another form and told Kansa that the one who is going to kill you is still around im not the one who is going to kill you.
hearing this Kansa gave order to his army to slaughter every infant with 3 months age but Krishna was thriving, just a few months old.The only surviving child for Devaki was Krishna. And Rohini had Balarama and Subhadra.
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