

(Those were the days when people would barter goods instead of using money to pay. In barter, Nandraj gave her a basket of grains. Krishna saw saw that his father, Nandraj, bought one of the baskets from the fruit-seller. She carried juicy, ripe mangoes with her. Once when Krishna was still a toddler, a fruit seller came to his house.

Krishna And The Fruit Seller (Here’s the full story) Was Putana able to harm the lord? Definitely not. She poison’s her milk and reaches Krishna’s house on the pretext of feeding him. She decides to eliminate him as well and takes the form of a beautiful maiden. She reaches Gokul and comes to know about a miraculous boy, Krishna. Slowly she starts eliminating all the infants, one by one, in Kamsa’s kingdom. Putana was glad to carry out Kamsa’s orders as she was extremely ruthless. So he ordered Putana, an evil demoness, to kill all the infants in his kingdom. Kamsa came to know that Krishna was somewhere in his kingdom. Kamsa, the evil uncle of Lord Krishna wanted to kill him but helped by his father, he managed to escape. Krishna And Putana (Here’s the full story) Kamsa finds out that the child destined to kill him is safe and out of his reach. Nevertheless, he decides to eliminate the girl but is unable to do so as the new born girl was an incarnation of Goddess Durga. Kamsa thinks that the eighth child, born to his sister, is not a boy but a girl. Vasudeva follows the instruction and safely delivers the new born to Gokul and get’s his friend’s new born daughter to the prison. He is assured that his son would have a safe upbringing in Gokul.

The night Krishna was born, a divine voice directed Vasudeva to smuggle the new born out of the prison and take him to his friend’s house in Gokul and exchange his son with his friend’s new born girl. Krishna was born as the eighth son to Devaki and Vasudeva. Kamsa imprisoned both of them and ensured that each of their newborns were eliminated on the day of their births. It was prophesied that Kamsa would be killed by the eight child born to his sister Devaki and her husband. King Kamsa of Mathura was a tyrant and an evil king. Here are 10 stories from the life of Krishna that kids love: The Birth of Krishna (Here’s the full story) Kids love him and grown-ups adore him, in whatever form he is worshiped, be it infant eating butter, the young boy playing the flute, with Radha – the love of his life, or in his larger-than-life avatar giving a discourse to Arjun on the battlefield at Kurukshetra. His mischievous nature, his love for his friends and stories of his childhood are narrated in every household. Lord Krishna is considered the most colorful character in Indian mythology.
