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He had a daughter called Devaki who was married to Vasudevar. Devaki's
brother Kamsan was driving the chariot with the newly wed couple. An asariri
(divine voice) called out that the eighth child of Devaki would kill Kamsan.
The outraged Kamsan rushed to kill Devaki, but Vasudevar pleaded, that
since the trouble was from Devaki's children, he would hand over all her
children to Kamsan. Kamsan put Devaki, Vasudevar and Ugrasenan in prison.
Kamsan mercilessly killed six of Devaki's children. Devaki was pregnant
for the seventh time and this time it was Adisesha's amsam in her womb.
Lord Vishnu arranged for this child to be transferred to the womb of Rohini,
another wife of Vasudevar, who lived in Aayarpaadi. Rohini gave birth to
a beautiful and powerful child who was named Balarama. Kamsan assumed that
Devaki had lost her seventh child.
The eighth child was Lord Krishna. When Krishna was born Vasudevar, carried the child by God's grace from the locked prison through rain and floods to the house of Nandagopar and Yasodha in Aayarpaadi. On the way, Aadiseshan covered the basket, protecting the child Krishna from the ravages of nature. Vasudeva left Krishna beside Yasodha and carried away her new born child (Parameswari, the maya child) to the prison. Kamsan, on hearing the birth of Krishna rushed to the prison, grabbed the child and tried to kill the child. The child however, rose up to the skies and ridiculed kamsan, that his arch enemy was still alive elsewhere and vanished. Krishna as a child
The day that Krishna killed Naragasuran is celbrated as Deepavali. In the episode of obtaining the Syamantakamani, he married Jambavati, Jambavan's daughter and Satyabama Satrajit's daughter. (Krishna's sister Subadra was married to Arjuna. Their son Abhimanyu married Vatsala, Balarama's daughter). The pancha Pandavas were cheated
of their kingdom by Duryodhana, his brothers and Duryodhana's uncle Sakuni.
With Krishna by thier side, the Pandavas ultimately defeated the Gauravas
and got back their kingdom. (In the war field Krishna advised Arjuna to
do his duty only and not to worry about the consequences, when Arjuna worried
over killing his relatives.) Geethopadesam to Arjuna by Lord Krishna is
truly a way of living to be followed by all human beings.
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Krishna
married Rukmini. (Rukmini's brother Rukmi wanted her to marry his friend
Sisubaalan. Krishna lifted Rukmini on to his chariot, swiftly reached Dwaraka
and married Rukmini).