According to
Bhagavata Purana, Krishna was born without a sexual union, but by divine
"mental transmission" from the mind of Vasudeva into the womb of
Devaki. Based on scriptural details and astrological calculations the date of
Krishna's birth, known as Janmashtami,is 18 July 3228 BCE and departed on 3102
BCE. Krishna belonged to the Vrishni clan of Yadavas from Mathura, and was the
eighth son born to the princess Devaki, and her husband Vasudeva.
Mathura was the
capital of the Yadavas, to which Krishna's parents Vasudeva and Devaki
belonged. King Kansa, Devaki's brother,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, Kansa had the couple locked into a prison cell.
After Kansa killed the first six children, and Devaki's apparent miscarriage of
the seventh (which was actually a secret transfer of the infant to Rohini as
Balarama), Krishna was born.
Since Vasudeva knew
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).
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