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Timeline of Krishna Avatar - Krishna Lila at 29 to 83 Years at Dwaraka and Indraprastha
- Story of Banasura who is Shiva's Devotee
- He was a great Devotee of Lord Shiva. He used to Play drums when Lord Shiva Dances
at Mount Kailash. Lord Shiva was very much pleased and gave him thousand hands. He is also grandson of Mahabali Chakravarthy.
But Banasura was not satisfied with that boon because there were nobody to compete him. Lord Shiva scolded him by telling
that he would get a suitable warrior against him to fight.
- Story of Usha and Anirudha - Usha, the daughter of Banasura had a dream of handsome
man which is none other than Anirudha, Grandson of Krishna. She narrated the features of Anirudha to Chitralekha her friend.
She is a good artist and she drew the picture. Chitralekha then travelled to Dwaraka and brought Anirudha to Usha's palace.
They both lived happily. The guards began to doubt and informed to Banasura. Meanwhile Dwaraka people began to know this incident.
Krishna Balarama and others set war against Banasura. Krishna started cutting each hand of Banasura with the help of
Sudarshana Chakra. But Lord Shiva asked that at least four hands be left for Banasura as he is an ardent Devotee. Krishna
then took Anirudha and Usha to Dwaraka and arranged their marriage. Even today Banasura will play drums with four hands when
Lord Shiva dances at Mount Kailash.
- Slaying of Jarasandha - Yudhistra was performing Rajasuya, but Jarasandha was always
an opponent. Krishna told Yudhistra that all the kings who opposed his Rajasuya should be either killed or make them accept
the Yaga. But they very well know that Jarasandha would neglect. So Bhima, Arjuna and Krishna went to Jarasandha in guise
of a Brahmin. But he found and asked when they wanted. They told that they need to fight against him. All the three were ready,
but Jarasandha accepted only Bhima to fight against him. They both fought vigoursouly and finally Bhima splitted the body
of Jarasandha and threw aside. But the body again got fixed and again they both started fighting. This happened few times.
Whenever he split the body and threw it would join and then they would fight. This annoyed Bhima. Krishna found a solution.
He took a dry grass and started to split into two halves and threw each half in opposite direction. Bhima did the same to
Jarasandha and threw it in opposite direction, the body did not fix again and he was dead. Many princes and kings were released
and finally Jarasandha's son was made the king.
- Sisupala Vadham - Everybody accepted Lord Krishna as the first person for respect
in Rajasuya Yaga. But Sisupala denied. He started ill treating Lord Krishna in front of others. This went for many times.
When it reached hundreth time, Krishna took off his Sudarshana Chakra and killed Sisupala. This is because when Sisupala was
born, he had an abnormal features. Everybody got scared of his birth. But a celestial voice told that the features will be
back to normal when he is placed in particular person's lap who is actually the child will be killed. So, when Krishna
came took Sisupala on his lap, the features turned to normal. But his mother who is actually aunt for Krishna requested that
Krishna should bear the child's hindrance atleast for hundred times before killing. So, eventhough he uttered cruel words
against Krishna, he stood without responding. When it crossed the limit, he started to punish Sisupala. Sisupala is also one
of the gatekeepers of Lord Vishnu at Vaikunta. Out of curse he was born thrice to overcome the curse.
- Killing of Salva and Dandavakra - Krishna Balarama was not there in Dwaraka.
Salva, who is the friend of Sisupala attacked Dwaraka in Krishna's absence. He started killing all the people. Krishna immediately
reached Dwaraka and started fight against Salva. He took his Sudarshana Chakra and killed the king. Later, Dandavakra who
was also friend of Sisupala started to fight against Krishna. Krishna again took his Sudarshana Chakra and killed the asura.
He is also one of the gatekeepers of Vaikunta. He also got relieved from the curse and reached Vaikunta.
- Sudama - Krishna's friend Sudama was very poor Brahmin. He was a good friend of Krishna.
Sudama was very poor and his wife asked him to seek some wealth from Krishna. Sudama denied. But his kids were finding very
difficult to find found to eat. So he set out to Dwaraka taking a small amount of flattened rice to Krishna. When he reached
the gates, Krishna and Rukmini welcomed him, treated him like a Maharaj and gave good respect. Finally, Krishna found the
puffed rice and started eating. When he was about to take a third part of the rice, Goddess Rukmini stopped him of eating.
It is nothing but the wealth which Lord Krishna gave to Kuchela for each part of rice he had taken from Sudama. But Sudama
did not ask anything from Krishna and went home. When he reached home, he found that his house has become a palace, lot of
wealth has been given by Krishna to his family. He thanked Lord Krishna for the help and he asked Krishna that only his grace
is required than anything in the world. Thus was a strong friendship between Lord Krishna and Sudama.
- Krishna's brothers - Vasudeva and Devaki realized that their son Krishna is none
other than Lord Vishnu himself and Balarama is none other than Lord Adisesha. Devaki pleaded Krishna to bring back his brothers
who was killed by Kamsa. But Krishna told that they have only short lives as a curse of Brahma. Once they tried to ill treat
Lord Brahma who cursed them to be born for short lives. They were actually sons of Hiranyakashpu where inturn immedietly born
again to Devaki and Vasudeva and got killed by Kamsa. Kamsa was just a mediator. Krishna brought back the life of them and
immedietly returned them to Pathala Lokha where they were ruled by Mahabali Chakravarthy.
- Recovery of Brahmin's children - Once a citizen of Dwaraka a Brahmin, was sad because his children
were born dead. But Krishna and Balarama did not responded. Arjuna happened to pass by and heard the sorrow of the Brahmin
and tried to save him. His wife delivered a baby tenth time. But the baby this time was also born dead and it vanished. Agitated
by this, the Brahmin asked Arjuna to set prey and jump into the fire as a result of not saving his child. But Arjuna searched
in all Lokhas and could not found the child. Later he thought of setting himself fire, But Krishna took him to Vaikunta, returned
the children of Brahmin and saved Arjuna.
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