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Krishna

the 8th avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu. Kansa, a demon king ) of Vishnu.

Kansa, a demon king of Mathura, having ruled oppressively, the Brahmans supplicated Vishnu to in- , plucked off two hairs, one black, the other white; the former became Krishna . He was born at Mathur; his father was Vasudeva, a ), and his mother Devaki. Kansa seeking to destroy him when an infant, his father fled away with him, vaisya's (merchant's) shop. When eight years old it rained heavily, and the god rooted up a mounheld it as an urabrella over the heads of the villagers and their cattle. When a youth he sported in the wilderness KRUGER of Bindrabun. Next assuming four arms, he killed the tyrant married two wives, but his favorite was ant Kansa. He Ward, about three-fifths of the whole a mistress called Radha . According to Hindu population shipers of this god. Hindu population of Bengal are wor- Saxons.

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