Reading Notes: Epified: Krishna, Part B


(A Man Dressed as Krishna. Photo by Pranav Bhasin)

  • An Overview of What Happened in the Second Half of Krishna's Story
    • The second half of the story starts with Brahma witnessing Krishna, a god, sharing his food off the same plate with his friends. The Brahma set up a test for Krishna, which displayed that Krishna was a very humble person.
    • Hastin was a wild, mean cow. Everyone was scared of this cow except for Krishna. Krishna set up a plan to play his flute and feed to cow for a month. At the end of the month, Krishna rode the cow into the city, and all the people of Vrindavan were shocked at the miracle.
    • Krishna wanted to marry Radha, but his parent were not excepting of that proposal. Krishna's father took him to Gargacharya. Gargacharya told Krishna that his destiny was not to marry Radha, and he also revealed the truth about Krishna's birth parents. 
    • Kamsa got back to his mission of trying to kill Krishna, so he sent Akrur to persuade Krishna to go to Mathura. Krishna's parents were worried for Krishna to go and begged him to stay, but Krishna agreed to go back with Akrur.
    • All of the people of Vrindavan were trying to stop Krishna from leaving, but Krishna said farewell and was off to Mathura. On the way to Mathura, they all stopped to wash their faces in the river, and Akrur swore he was hallucinating Balram, but he was not Balram had come with his brother, Krishna.
    • Krishna and Balram arrived in Mathura. Krishna did many good deeds around the city. He healed an old woman with three deformities that had apparently been waiting for a long time for Vasudev's son to heal her.
    • Kamsa heard about all of Krishna's good deeds, therefore, he knew Krishna was in the city and started scheming his last attempt to kill Krishna. He had a very aggressive elephant attack Krishna, but Krishna won like always.
    • Krishna ended up breaking some sacred bow, so Kamsa sent his army to kill Krishna and Balram, but they beat the army. Krishna and Balram then attacked Kamsa and killed him. The people of Mathura cheered at the sight of their cruel ruler's dead body. 
    • Akrur lead Krishna to a prison to free his grandfather, Ugrasen. Then Krishna went to meet and free his birth parents. After everyone was freed, Ugrasen was pronounced King of Mathura. 
    • After news of Kamsa's death had spread, Mathura was victim to several attacks. Krishna shifted Mathura to a newly built city, Dwarka to keep his people safe from more of Jarasandha attacks. In Dwark, Krishna became king.
  • This is where the story ended.

Bibliography: Epified: Krishna. Web Source

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