I have seen many people calling Lord Krishna as 'Vasudev'. We know that Vasudev was the father of the Lord, but why is Krishna addressed using the same name?
Why is Krishna often addressed by his father's name - Vasudev ? Is Vasudev also some kind of post , title or anything like that ?
I have heard many Acharyas and saints mentioning Vasudev Krishna and Yashodanandan Krishna to be different. Is there any scriptural reference to it? If yes, what is the difference between the two? ...
Do we have any account of the afterlives of Vasudeva, Devaki, Nandagopa and Yashoda? I generally hear about Nandagopa and Yashoda's last incident to be while they were being separated from Krishna,...
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Kamsa was told by a mystical voice that Devaki's 8 th son shall kill Kamsa himself. So he puts Vasudeva (Devaki's husband) and Devaki in a cell, and whenever they have a child, he goes and mercilessly kills him/her. If he was so desperate to stop his death, then why didn't he put Devki and Vasudev in different cells? That would stop any child from coming.
Krishna is Vasudeva for two reasons (1) His father is Vasudeva वसुदेव (short "a") (2) In-dwelling spirit. Looking for Vishnu or his Avataras before the Krishna incarnation being called &q...
Source : kunti Kans agreed to that and then he kept devki and vasudev in prison. The other reason why bhishma didn't stop kans was he was bound to the throne of hastinapur and he couldn't attack any one without kings consent and since kans didn't do any harm to hastinapur, he and bhishma pitamaha never came face to face.