Novella of Indian Mythology

Unknown Facts of Krishna

 1.Krishna had 16008 wives  of which  only eight were his princely wives known as ‘AsthaPatrani’.Bhargava Purana lists them as  – 

1. Rukmini,
2.  Satyabhama, 
3. Jambavati,
4.  Kalindi, 
5. Mitravinda, 
6. Nagnajiti,
7. Bhadra and 
8. Lakshmana

2.Krishna had eighty sons since each Patrani gave him 10 sons.Some of the Prominent sons of the Krishna were  Pradyumna, Samba , Charu Deshna Sudeshna and  Charudeha.

3.There is a quite popular story about Samba ,son of Krishna.Krishna always wanted a son like Shiva, the god of Destruction.So he penanced for Lord Shiva and got a boon from Shiva to have a son similar to Shiva.Later Jambavati gave birth to a son and was named Samba, another name of Lord Shiva.Samba later became the anchor who brought destruction to Yadav clan.

4.Eklavya was actually the Krishna Cousin.He was the son of DevSharava who got lost in the forest.Nishad HiranayaDhanau found him.Eklavya died protecting his father in Rukmini Swayamvar when Krishna was eloping with Rukmini.He was killed by Krishna and  for his great Sacrifice and he was blessed that he would be born as DhrishtDhumn and would kill Drona.

5.The narration of Bhagwad Gita was heard firsthand not only by Arjuna but Hanuman and Sanjaya who was blessed with divine power by Ved Vyasa in order to narrate the events of battle to king DhritRashtra.

6.Pradumnya ,son of Krishna was Kamadeva in the earlier life who was turned to ashes by Lord Shiva.

7.Pandavas was related to Krishna from his mother side as Kunti was the sister of VashuDeva , father of Lord Krishna.

8.Once Dhurvasa was eating Kheer(pudding) and eventually he asked Krishna to apply that kheer on his whole body.Krishna obliged and applied kheer to his whole body except his feet thinking of Kheer to be consecrated.Durvasa angered and told him that his whole body would be impenetrable except his feet and we all know whole the Jara killed Krishna by shooting an arrow on his feet by mistake.

9.Jara , the hunter who killed Krishna was actually Bali who killed by Rama,the avatar of Vishnu .

10.The Six brothers of the Krishna who were killed by Kansa were 1.Smara 2.Udighta 3.ParishVanga 4.Patanga 5.KshudraBhit 6.Ghrini. The Seventh was BalaRama while eighth was Krishna himself.