| Asian Mythology: Devakī |
The mother of the Hindu Lord Kṛṣṇa (see Kṛṣṇa), Devakī was the sister or cousin of King Kaṃsa (see Kaṃsa) who, like the Greek Kronos, killed his children as they were born because of a prophecy that one of them would kill him. Kṛṣṇa was saved when he was exchanged with the daughter of the herdsman Nanda (see Nanda), who served as his surrogate father.
| Wikipedia: Devaki |
In Hinduism, Devaki (देवकी) is the wife of Vasudeva and mother of Krishna and Balarama[1].
She was the daughter of Devaka, the younger brother of King Ugrasena of Mathura. She was a partial incarnation of Aditi, the mother of the Devas. Devaki and Vasudeva were imprisoned by her cousin, Kamsa, 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. The eighth son, Krishna (who was actually an avatar of Vishnu), was born at midnight and taken by Vasudeva across the Yamuna river to be raised by Nanda and Yasoda in the neighboring village of Gokul. In place of Krishna, Vasudeva took Yashoda's just born child (the incarnation of Yogmaya). After returning to Mathura with the baby girl (yog-maya), Kamsa 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, who married Arjuna and was the mother of Abhimanyu. Afterwards, they moved to Dwaraka with the rest of Mathura's population.
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