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After the death of Aghasura, Kamsa has now sent the mighty Pralambasura to get rid of Krishna. Little Krishna is playing a game with His friends when the demon reaches Vrindavan. Balaram declares the rule of the game – losers will have to carry winners on their shoulders all the way to the riverside and back.
Top panel: Krishna killing Putana. Bottom panel: The people of Vraj cutting Putana's body and burning her body. The legend of Putana and Krishna is narrated in many Hindu texts: the Bhagavata Purana, the Harivamsa (appendix of the Mahabharata), the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, the Vishnu Purana, the Garga Samhita and the Prem Sagar.
When the serpent closed his mouth, the victims generally suffocated to death. [9] Krishna entered the serpent upon his arrival and then increased the size of his own body. [10] In response, the demon also extended his own body's size, but started suffocating as Krishna was expanding more quickly than him, causing his eyes to pop out. [11]
But, when Manavedan saw Guruvayurappan in the form of little child Krishna, he was so excited that he forgot himself and rushed to embrace little Krishna. Guruvayoorappan immediately disappeared saying, "Vilwamangalam did not tell me that this will happen". However, Manavedan got one peacock feather from the headgear of Bhagavan Krishna.
Bala Krishna with his brother Balarama and the cowherd boys were enjoying their pastimes with their cows near the banks of the Yamuna river, while in other accounts they were in the forests of Gokul. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Bakasura, in the form of a crane with a sharp beak, swooped down from the sky and swallowed Krishna, but he felt intense heat in his ...
In the Atharvaveda (2nd millennium BCE), Keshi, the "hairy one", first appears as being described as a demon who attacks the unborn, though not in relation to Krishna. A line from passage 8.6 which describes evils that attack female fetuses reads as: "Let us keep the black asura Keśin, born in the reed clump, snout-mouthed and all other harmful creatures, away from her genitals and her loins ...
[5] [6] One of the 3 shortest episodes within the epic, the Mausala Parva describes the demise of Krishna in the 36th year after the Kurukshetra War had ended, the submersion of Dvaraka under the sea, the death of Balarama by drowning in the sea, Vasudeva's death, and a civil war fought among the Yadava clan that killed many of them.
Kamsa sent Trinavarta to kill his nephew. [3] Assuming the form of a whirlwind, Trinavarta carried away the sitting Krishna. [4] [5] He enveloped the whole of Gokulam with a cloud of dust and darkness, the resultant cover of sand particles causing great distress to Yashoda, who attempted to find her son with the help of the gopis. [6]