Devaki

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Devaki

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Hinduism

'Hinduism' is the predominant religion of the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism is often referred to as , a Sanskrit phrase meaning "the eternal dharma", by its practitioners....
, Devaki is the wife of Vasudeva

Vasudeva

File:Krishna carried over river yamuna.jpgIn Hindu mythology, Vasudeva is the father of Krishna, the son of , of the Yadava dynasty. His sister Kunti was married to Pandu....
and mother of Krishna

Krishna

Krishna is a deity worshiped across many traditions in Hinduism in a variety of different perspectives. While many Vaishnava groups recognize him as an avatar of Vishnu, other traditions within Krishnaism consider Krishna to be svayam bhagavan, or the supreme being....
and Balarama

Balarama

Balarama , also known as Baladeva, Baldau, Balabhadra and Halayudha, is the elder brother of the divine being, Krishna in Hinduism....
.

She was the daughter of Devaka, the younger brother of King Ugrasena

Ugrasena

Ugrasena was the King of Mathura, a kingdom that was established after the various factions of Yadava, Vrishni and Bhoja clans decided that the dividing states would unite as one and that the Kingship would not be subject to heredity and if decided not to be so, the succeeding leader would be chosen by a simple majority, therefore, a semi-de...
of Mathura

Mathura

Mathura is a holy city in the Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. It is located approximately 50 km north of Agra, and 150 km south of Delhi; about twenty kilometers from holy Vrindavana....
. She was a partial incarnation of Aditi

Aditi

Aditi [from a without + diti bound from the verbal root da to bind] boundless, free; as a noun, infinite and shoreless expanse. In the Vedas, Aditi is Devamatri as from and in her cosmic matrix all the heavenly bodies were born....
, the mother of the Devas. Devaki and Vasudeva were imprisoned by her cousin, Kamsa

Kamsa

In Hinduism, Kamsa or Kansa , often known as Kans in Hindi, is the cousin of Devaki, and ruler of the Vrishni kingdom with its capital at Mathura....
, due to a prophecy that one of their sons would kill him. Kamsa then killed six of their sons. The seventh, Balarama, escaped death by being transferred to the womb of vasudeva's other wife, rohini, while a female child (an incarnation of the goddess Yoga-Nidra or Maya) was placed in Yashoda's womb.

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Avatar

Avatar or Avatara , often translated into English as incarnation, literally means descent and usually implies a deliberate descent from higher spiritual realms to lower realms of existence for special purposes....
of Vishnu

Vishnu

Vishnu , , is the Supreme God in Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of panchadeva, and his supreme status is declared in the Hindu sacred texts like Yajurveda, the Rigveda and the Bhagavad Gita....
), was born at midnight and taken by Vasudeva across the Yamuna river to be raised by Nanda

Nanda (mythology)

According to Puranas, Nanda was head of a tribe of cowherds referred as Holy Gwals. On the night of Krishna's appearance or birth, Vasudeva brought Krishna to Nanda for Krishna's childhood years....
and Yasoda

Yasoda

Yasoda was wife of Nanda within the Puranic texts of Hinduism. Within the Bhagavata Purana it is describe that Yasoda later became the foster-mother to Krishna, who was born to Devaki but was given to Yashoda and Nanda in Gokul, by Krishna's father Vasudeva on the night of his birth, for his protection from Devaki's brother, the king of M...
in the neighboring village of Gokul

Gokul

Gokul was the place where Krishna was brought up under the care of Nanda and Yashoda, the first family of the village. Since Kamsa, Krishna's uncle, used to kill every baby born to Devaki, Nanda exchanged his own new born daughter with Vasudeva in order to smuggle Krishna away without raising Kamsa's suspicion....
. In place of Krishna, Vasudeva took Yashoda's just born child (the incarnation of Yog-maya). After returning to Mathura with the baby girl (yog-maya), Kamsa

Kamsa

In Hinduism, Kamsa or Kansa , often known as Kans in Hindi, is the cousin of Devaki, and ruler of the Vrishni kingdom with its capital at Mathura....
in disbelief, tries to destroy it when it flies out of his hands and turns into an eight-armed goddess and warns him "fool, your death has alrady been born on this Earth." It was believed that Krishna was born not from a sexual connection between Devaki and Vasudeva, but was transferred to Devaki's womb. After he realised that Krishna had escaped alive, Kamsa released Devaki and Vasudeva, and they lived in Mathura. Vasudeva and his second wife Rohini had a daughter Subhadra

Subhadra

Subhadra is an important character in the Mahabharata. She is the half-sister of Krishna, wife of Arjuna, and mother of Abhimanyu. She was the partial incarnation of Shatarupa....
, who married Arjuna

Arjuna

Arjuna, Arjun or Arjunaa is one of the heroes of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, whose name means 'bright', 'shining', 'white' or 'silver' ....
and was the mother of Abhimanyu. Afterwards, they moved to Dwaraka with the rest of Mathura's population.