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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Goddess Yashoda Maiya

Goddess Yashoda was the deity, who brought up Krishna, the son of Devaki and Vasudeva, a mythological king. The image of yashoda illustrates an incident of the birth of Krishna.

Vasudeva two wife first Rohini and second is Devaki. After the marriage of Devaki, her brother Kansa had a premonition that her eighth son would kill him. On the request of Vasudeva, Kansa did not kill Devaki immediately. But, Kansa proceeded to kill the first six of Devaki`s sons. When Devaki pregnant for the seventh time, Vishnu transferred the embryo to Rohini`s womb to prevent the child to get murdered by Kansa and it was announced that Devaki had miscarried. When the child was born later, it was called Balarama.

Now, Vishnu was Devaki`s eighth son whom her brother Kansa is confirmed to kill. But, Lord Vishnu managed the situation in such a way that Devaki and Yashoda would give birth at the same time and Yashoda would forget the sex of her child. It happened as planned and on the night of the child`s birth, Vasudeva took his son and left him with Yashoda in exchange for her daughter whom he took back to Devaki. In this way, Vishnu was born as Krishna and was brought up by Nanda and Yashoda in the safety of the country.

On the other hand, Vasudeva and Devaki pretended that their eighth child was a daughter. Yashoda brought up Krishna thinking him to be her own child. But later, she became aware of the fact when Krishna became a young boy and had to leave for Mathura to kill Kansa. But, she still adored Krishna like her own child