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Vasudeva

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This article is about the character from Mahabharata. For the Kushan king, see Vasudeva I. For the book by Narendra Kohli, see Vasudeva (book).
Not to be confused with Vāsudeva.
Vasudeva
Vasudeva
Krishna and Balarama meet their parents (Painting by Raja Ravi Varma)
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Spouse(s)Rohini Devi, Devaki
ChildrenBalarama, Subhadra and Krishna
In Indian epic poetry, Vasudeva (Devanagari वसुदेव, IAST Vasudeva) is the father of Krishna. He was not the brother of cowherds tribe chieftan Nanda Baba who was a Surasena[1] who was foster father of Lord Krishna.[2] His sister Kunti was married to Pandu. Kunti plays a big role later in the war Mahabharata. Vasudeva was a partial incarnation of Rishi Kashyapa. The patronymic Vāsudeva (with long ā) is a popular name of Krishna. According to the Harivansa Purana, Vasudeva and Nanda were brothers.[3]

Krishna and Bhagvatism[edit]

Vasudeva is related to Bhagavatism that was largely formed by the 1st-millennium BCE where Vāsudeva (Krishna, the son of Vasudeva) was worshiped as supreme ultimate reality (Brahman). This is evidenced by texts and archaeological evidence. As textual evidence, the Mahanarayana Upanishad records the verse:
नारायाणाय विद्महे वासुदेवाय धीमहि तन्नो विष्णुः प्रचोदयात्
We endeavor to know Narayana, we meditate on Vāsudeva and Vishnu bestows wisdom on us.
— Mahanarayana Upanishad, Chapter 7,[4][5]
This verse asserts that Narayana, Vāsudeva (Krishna) and Vishnu are synonymous.[5] The author and the century in which the above Mahanarayana Upanishad was composed is unknown. The relative chronology of the text, based on its poetic verse and textual style, has been proposed by Parmeshwaranand to the same period of composition as Katha, Isha, Mundaka and Shvetashvatara Upanishads, but before Maitri, Prashna and Mandukya Upanishad.[6] Feuerstein places the relative composition chronology of Mahanarayana to be about that of Mundaka and Prashna Upanishads.[7] These relative chronology estimates date the text to second half of 1st millennium BCE.[6][8] Srinivasan suggests a later date for the composition of the Mahanarayana Upanishad, one after about 300 BCE and probably in the centuries around the start of the common era.[9]
Other evidence is from archeological inscriptions, where Bhagavan is documented epigraphically to be from around 100 BCE, such as in the inscriptions of the Heliodorus pillar. An Indo-Greek ambassador from Taxila named Heliodorus, of this era, worked at the court of aShunga king, and addresses himself as a Bhagavata on this pillar, an epithet scholars consider as evidence of Vāsudeva worship was well established in 1st millennium BCE.[10]

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Notes[edit]

  1. Jump up^ The Cattle and the Stick: An Ethnographic Profile of the Raut of Chhattisgarh -Page 16
  2. Jump up^ http://books.google.co.in/books?ei=LylzU-L7IdeeugTem4HwDA&id=wT-BAAAAMAAJ&dq=abhira&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=+This+proves+that
  3. Jump up^ Lok Nath Soni, The cattle and the stick: an ethnographic profile of the Raut of Chhattisgarh. Anthropological Survey of India, Govt. of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Dept. of Culture (2000).
  4. Jump up^ Hattangadi 1999, p. ॥ ७॥ Adhayaya.
  5. ^ Jump up to:a b SM Srinivaschari (1994), Vaiṣṇavism: Its Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Discipline, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120810983, page 132-134, 212-218
  6. ^ Jump up to:a b Parmeshwaranand 2000, pp. 458-459.
  7. Jump up^ Feuerstein 1989, pp. 119-120.
  8. Jump up^ Olivelle 1998, pp. 11-14.
  9. Jump up^ Srinivasan 1997, pp. 112, 120.
  10. Jump up^ John Irvin (1973-1975), Aśokan Pillars: A Reassessment of the Evidence, The Burlington Magazine. v. 115, pages 706-720; v. 116, pages 712-727; v. 117, pages 631-643; v. 118, pages 734-753; OCLC 83369960

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