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Since lord Krishna birthday (Janmashtami) is coming near, I willbe writing next few artic les on lord Krishna. I have alreadypos ted many artic les on lord Krishna. I f you haven’t read them,then please go through the below link: P roof of Lord krishna exis tence-1 Sc ientific P roof of lord Krishna exis tence V arious Maya-I llus ions of lord krishna Stories of radha krishna love Why Lord krishna had more than 16000 wives Why Lord Krishna didnt marry radha C heating and Deception by lord krishna
In this article, I will be trying to lay out the maximum evidence to prove the historicity oflord Krishna. Based on the archeological proof obtained from different part of India, Historians andarcheologist have came to the conclusion that Krishna was the historic character andstory of Mahabharata may be most certainly true. However they still suspects thedivinity of lord Krishna and they consider Krishna as intelligent human having someextra ordinary technology, and the one who followed the path of dharma and karma atits best.
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Lord Krishna, most intelligent human of treta yuga Now no one can prove if the s tories of lord Krishna are true s incethe s tories are more than thousands of year old. I t’s jus t thespiritual experience and faith of the devotees that they believelord Krishna was the supreme divine charac ter. In this series of artic le, I will be discuss ing jus t the eventsrelated to lord Krishna. Believing it or non-believing, I leave it toyou. There are many names of lord Krishna. These names werehonored to him according to the karma (Deeds) he did in his life.Some of the names are: Gopal- ‘Go’ means C ow and ‘pal’ means protec tor. So, lord Krishna
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was given the name Gopal because he was the protector of cows.
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P rotec tor of cow-Gopala with brother balarama Below are some of the other names with their meaning:
Krishna Dark-C omplexioned Lord
Balgopal The C hild Krishna, The A ll A ttrac tive
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Govinda O ne Who P leases The C ows, The Land A nd The Entire Nature
Sachidanand V igraha Embodiment of exis tence, A wareness and blis s
Govardhanchalo Dhartreya L ifter of Govardhan H il
Kama janakaye O ne generating des ires in worldly mind
Gopalpriya Lover O f C owherds
Kamsantak Slayer O f Kamsa
Keshava O ne Who Has Long, Black Matted Locks
Madhusudan Slayer O f Demon Madhu
Murlidhar O ne Who Holds The Flute
Nandgopala The Son O f Nand
Parthasarthi C harioteer O f P artha - A rjuna
Sahasrajit O ne Who V anquishes Thousands
Sarvapalaka P rotec tor O f A ll
Damodar O ne tied with a grinding Stone
Mathura Naresh King of Birth c ity Mathura
Lila-Manush-V igraha A ssuming human form to perform pas times
Shrivas tav Kaus thuba-Dharya Wearing Shri V atsa and Kaus thubha Gem
Yashoda-V atsalya Mother Yashoda's darling child
Megh-varna the one with the color-of-c louds
Murli-manohar s teals hearts by the melody of his flute
Madan-Mohan can mesmerize C upid himself with H is beauty
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Murli-Manohar Krishna kanhaiya There were many other names given to him because of his divineand supreme charac ter. Some of these with their meanings are:
A chyuta Infallible Lord
Adbhutah Wonderful God
Adidev The Lord Of The Lords
Ajanma One Who Is Limitless And Endless
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Ajaya The Conqueror Of Life And Death
Akshara Indestructible Lord
Amrut One Who Is Sweet As Nectar
Anaadih One Who Is The First Cause
Anandsagar Compassionate Lord
Ananta The Endless Lord
Anaya One Who Has No Leader
Aniruddha One Who Cannot Be Obstructed
Aparajeet The Lord Who Cannot Be Defeated
Avyukta One Who Is As Clear As Crystal
Chaturbhuj Four-Armed Lord
Danavendra Granter Of Boons
Dayalu Repositiory Of Compassion
Dayanidhi The Compassionate Lord
Devakinandan Son Of Mother Devaki
Dharmadhyaksha The Lord OF Dharma
Dwarkapati Lord Of Dwarka
Gyaneshwar The Lord Of Knowledge
Hari The Lord Of Nature
Hiranyagarbha The All Powerful Creator
Hrishikesh The Lord Of All Senses
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Jagadguru Preceptor Of The Universe
Jagadisha Protector Of All
Jagannath Lord Of The Universe
Janardhana One Who Bestows Boons On One And All
Jayantah Conqueror Of All Enemies
Jyotiraaditya The Resplendence Of The Sun
Kamalnath The Lord Of Goddess Lakshmi
Kamalnayan The Lord With Lotus Shaped Eyes
Kanjalochana The Lotus-Eyed God
Lakshmikantam The Lord Of Goddess Lakshmi
Lokadhyaksha Lord Of All The Three Lokas (Worlds)
Madan The Lord Of Love
Madhava Knowledge Filled God
Mahendra Lord Of Indra
Manmohan All Pleasing Lord
Manohar Beautiful Lord
Mayur The Lord Who Has A Peacock Feathered-Crest
Mohan All Attractive God
Murali The Flute Playing Lord
Murlimanohar The Flute Playing God
Narayana The Refuge Of Everyone
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Niranjana The Unblemished Lord
Nirguna Without Any Properties
Padmahasta One Who Has Hands Like Lotus
Padmanabha The Lord Who Has A Lotus Shaped Navel
Parabrahmana The Supreme Absolute Truth
Paramatma Lord Of All Beings
Parampurush Supreme Personality
Prajapati Lord Of All Creatures
Punyah Supremely Pure
Purshottam The Supreme Soul
Ravilochana One Who Eye Is The Sun
Sahasraakash Thousand-Eyed Lord
Sahasrapaat Thousand-Footed Lord
Sakshi All Witnessing Lord
Sanatana The Eternal Lord
Sarvajana Omniscient Lord
Sarveshwar Lord Of All Gods
Satyavachana One Who Speaks Only The Truth
Satyavrata The Truth Dedicated Lord
Shantah Peaceful Lord
Shreshta The Most Glorious Lord
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Shrikanta Beautiful Lord
Shyam Dark-Complexioned Lord
Shyamsundara Lord Of The Beautiful Evenings
Sudarshana Handsome Lord
Sumedha Intelligent Lord
Suresham Lord Of All Demi-Gods
Swargapati Lord Of Heavens
Trivikrama Conqueror Of All The Three Worlds
Vaikunthanatha Lord Of Vaikuntha, The Heavenly Abode
Vardhamaanah The Formless Lord
Vasudev All Prevailing Lord
Vishnu All Prevailing Lord
Vishwadakshinah Skilfull And Efficient Lord
Vishwamurti Of The Form Of The Entire Universe
Vishwarupa One Who Displays The Universal Form
Vishwatma Soul Of The Universe
Vrishaparvaa Lord Of Dharma
Yogi The Supreme Master
Yoginampati Lord Of The Yogis
Beside these, there are more 100 names given to lord Krishna. Only an extra-ordinarypersonality can be attributed with so many names. Now for non-believers, here is the list of questions that most devotees would like to
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raise? 1) If Krishna was a mythological character, why there was a need for so many namesor why did anyone tried to derive so many times. How many names does our harrypotter have? 2) Did you ever see any community in the world celebrating the birth or death
anniversaries of any fictitious person? I f lord krishna was a mythologicalcharac ter, then why there was a need of celebrating hisbirthday(janmashtami) and that too in many countries of theworld?
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Lord Krishna birthday (Janmashtami) celebration in Mumbai 3) If he was a mythological character then why many festivals like holi, diwali etcwhich are related to lord Krishna, are celebrated since time unknown. 4) If he was a mythological character and was the creation of one author then whymany other authors and philosophers (Authors from outside India too) are validatingthe creation of that author over the course of time and don’t even care to mention thatKrishna is a fictional character or the story is the fictional story. 5) If lord Krishna was a fictional character, then how come many cities that arementioned in Mahabharata and similar ancient texts still exist? Rarely across the world,is any city name based on the fictional story. 6) Why the folk dance related to lord Krishna (Raas -Leela) is still demonstrated acrossIndia and outside India in countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar etc. 7) Can our saints and sages, who have always spoken the truth since birth, can lie and
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claim a fictional story as true? 8) Has been there any one fictitious character whose story has been written repeatedlyby 10 to 20 authors? Stories of Krishna has been told verbally, non-verbally and literallysince time immemorial by thousands of writers ,sages, poets, and authors in differentlanguages and in different countries of the world.
Raas-Leela 9) Over the course of time, many high-level intellectuals and enlightened individualshave given their life in the devotion of lord Krishna. Why such individuals with great IQ(intelligence) got attracted to the fictional character? India is one of the oldest civilizations on earth and never had a tradition of writingimaginary stories as our country was never short of real-life heroes. Since we are living inkali-yuga, humans are so much bewildered and trapped in materialistic illusions thattheir mind has lost his ability to realize what is right and what is wrong. In this and future articles, we will try to focus on facts and evidences available to claim
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the historicity of lord Krishna. More than hundred years ago, one of the greatestintellectuals of India, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, wrote a remarkable book (Sri KrishnaCharitra) devoted to a scientific study of lord Krishna. To shatter the magnificent history of eastern world, many western authors came up withfalse theories to prove their superiority and dominance over the entire world. One ofsuch theory was a completely baseless theory by max muller called as Aryan InvasionTheory. Many recent discoveries, archeological proof and DNA analysis haveshattered the claims of Aryan Invasion Theory and have pushed back the dates of Vedicliterature to much before than it were generally believed by the early philosophers andhistorians.
A t the top of this page, I have already pos ted two artic leswritten by different authors who tried to sc ientifically prove theexis tence of lord Krishna. In this artic le, we shall examine allsuch evidence available today to unravel the H is toricals ignificance of Krishna.
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Historical period of KrishnaA ccording to Srimad Bhagvatam, Krishna came on Earth at theend of the Dwapar Yug of the 7 th Manvantar of the 1s t Kalpaof the 51s t year of the current Brahma. I f you were not able tounders tand the time span, then let me give you the shortdesc ription Life span of Brahma is 100 years ; Brahma one year of 360 daysis called Kalpas; each day of Brahma is divided into 14Manvantars; and las tly, each Manvantar is divided into 71Maha-Yugas (Eons) with 4 Yugas each
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Birth of Krishna
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C urrently, we are living in Kaliyuga-the las t of the four Yugas .A ccording to as tronomical calculations , Kaliyuga s tarted on20th February 3102 BC E. Bhagvatam dec lares that Kaliyugacouldn't begin till the lord was res iding on earth. So, if this istrue then Krishna was born roughly around 3300-3200 BC E.
Note that some sc riptures s tates that kaliyuga began when lordKrishna completed his s tudies and blew the conch shell given byparshuram in guru ashram.
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A nointing the A nointed O ne - Krishna's Birth C eremony
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Fortuitous ly, we have a large body of archaeological and literaryevidence to guide us in deriving an approximate time-span forhis presence. Epic Mahabharat is one of such earlies t text providingexplic it detailed desc riptions of lord Krishna. Now Mahabharata is not based on life of lord Krishna; ins tead itis based on the his tory of Kurus (P andavs and Kauravs) - Kingof Has tinapur kingdom. So, Mahabharata contains only limitedpart of Krishna's life which direc tly or indirec tly had an effec t onhas tinapur kingdom or other kingdom of bharat varsha (Thosedays India which inc luded full of A s ia). However, the mostfamous , adorned literary text of Mahabharata is the Bhagavad Gita whichshows Krishna as more than just a normal living being. He was treated as the appointedprincely diplomat (Delegate) of the Supreme God or the supreme god Himself.
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Lord Krishna riding a chariot in battlefield of kurukshetra. Grant Morrison - the direc tor of animation-based Mahabharatas tates about gita as - The Gita, with its direct, no-nonsense guide for all the living beings ,is at the very core of the Mahabharata; Whole s tory came intoexis tence because lord Krishna wanted to preach Bhagavad gita tothe mortal living beings of this world. The conflict between brothersin Mahabharata shows the war between duty and des ire, thespiritual and the material, the war fought by human being in theirlife every day.
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Because of the high value based teaching with an ultimatemessage, bhagavad gita has been adorned by intellec tuals allaround the world. Even the greates t of all the sc ientis ts , AlbertEinstein and father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi, applauded bhagavad gita andchanged their way of thinking after reading gita. In fact, Gandhi approach of satyagrahaand non-violence was derived from bhagavad gita. Gandhi has also written a book onbhagavad gita.
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Krishna reveals the Gita to a bewildered A rjuna
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Albert Einstein in his book said that"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created thisuniverse everything else seems so superfluous." In the next article, we will dig up many ancient scriptures including Jain andBuddhist literature to derive out the most probable time span of lord Krishna.
Before ending, wishing all of you a very happy janmashtami.
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