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Crishna

in Hindu mythology, an incarnate deity of perfect beauty. King that a child of the family of Devaci would overturn his throne, gave orders to destroy all the male infants that were born. When born, his nurse attempted to poison him, but failed, and the mother and child fled , and were taken care of by a shepherd. As he grew up, his beauty was so divine that all the princesses of Hindustan fell in love with him, and even to the present hour he is the Apollo of women."

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