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Lord Krishna in Devanagariri Krsna,
is a deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism in
a variety of different perspectives. While many Vaishnava groups
recognize him as an avatar ie. incarnation of Vishnu ,
some consider him to be svayam bhagavan,
or the original form of the Lord.

Krishna is often depicted as a baby, as a young boy playing a flute as
in the Bhagavata Purana or
as a youthful prince giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad
Gita

The stories of Krishna appear across a broad spectrum of Hindu
philosophical and theological traditions. They
portray him in various roles: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover,
a divine hero and the Supreme Being. The
principal scriptures discussing Krishna’s legands are the Mahabharata,
the Harivamsa, the Bhagavata Purana and the Vishnu Purana

Krishna belonged to the royal family of Mathura, and was the eighth son
born to the princess Devaki, and her husband Vasudeva. Mathura was the
capital of the Yadavas (also called the Surasenas), to which Krishna’s
parents Vasudeva and Devaki belonged to. The king Kamsa, Devaki’s cousin,
had ascended the throne by imprisoning his father, King Ugrasena. Afraid
of a prophecy that predicted his death at the hands of Devaki’s eighth
son, he had locked the couple into a prison cell. After killing the first
six children, and Devaki’s apparent miscarriage of the seventh, being transferred
to Rohini as Balarama, Krishna took birth.

Since Vasudeva believed Krishna’s life was in danger, Krishna was secretly
taken out of the prison cell to be raised by his foster parents, Yasoda
and Nanda in Gokula. Two of his other siblings also survived, Balarama
(Devaki’s seventh child, transferred to the womb of Rohini, Vasudeva’s
first wife) and Subhadra (daughter of Vasudeva and Rohini, born much later
than Balarama and Krishna). According to Bhagavata Purana some believe
that Krishna was born without a sexual union, by “mental transmission” from
the mind of Vasudeva into the womb of Devaki

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