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| - After six children were killed, the seventh was transported to the womb of Rohini, disguised as Devaki's miscarriage. Their eighth child, who would grow to be Krishna, was smuggled to a local family of cowherds, where he grew up. After Krishna fulfilled the prophecy, Ugrasena, formerly imprisoned father of Kansa (and former king), was restored to the throne and Vasudeva became the heir.
- Vasudeva is related to Bhagavatism that was largely formed by the 1st-millennium BCE where Vāsudeva (Krishna, the son of Vasudeva) was worshiped as supreme ultimate reality (Brahman). This is evidenced by texts and archaeological evidence. As textual evidence, the Mahanarayana Upanishad records the verse: नारायाणाय विद्महे वासुदेवाय धीमहि तन्नो विष्णुः प्रचोदयात् We endeavor to know Narayana, we meditate on Vāsudeva and Vishnu bestows wisdom on us. —Mahanarayana Upanishad , Chapter 7,
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| - After six children were killed, the seventh was transported to the womb of Rohini, disguised as Devaki's miscarriage. Their eighth child, who would grow to be Krishna, was smuggled to a local family of cowherds, where he grew up. After Krishna fulfilled the prophecy, Ugrasena, formerly imprisoned father of Kansa (and former king), was restored to the throne and Vasudeva became the heir.
- Vasudeva is related to Bhagavatism that was largely formed by the 1st-millennium BCE where Vāsudeva (Krishna, the son of Vasudeva) was worshiped as supreme ultimate reality (Brahman). This is evidenced by texts and archaeological evidence. As textual evidence, the Mahanarayana Upanishad records the verse: नारायाणाय विद्महे वासुदेवाय धीमहि तन्नो विष्णुः प्रचोदयात् We endeavor to know Narayana, we meditate on Vāsudeva and Vishnu bestows wisdom on us. —Mahanarayana Upanishad , Chapter 7, This verse asserts that Narayana, Vāsudeva (Krishna) and Vishnu are synonymous. The author and the century in which the above Mahanarayana Upanishad was composed is unknown. The relative chronology of the text, based on its poetic verse and textual style, has been proposed by Parmeshwaranand to the same period of composition as Katha, Isha, Mundaka and Shvetashvatara Upanishads, but before Maitri, Prashna and Mandukya Upanishad. Feuerstein places the relative composition chronology of Mahanarayana to be about that of Mundaka and Prashna Upanishads. These relative chronology estimates date the text to second half of 1st millennium BCE. Srinivasan suggests a later date for the composition of the Mahanarayana Upanishad, one after about 300 BCE and probably in the centuries around the start of the common era. Other evidence is from archeological inscriptions, where Bhagavan is documented epigraphically to be from around 100 BCE, such as in the inscriptions of the Heliodorus pillar. An Indo-Greek ambassador from Taxila named Heliodorus, of this era, worked at the court of a Shunga king, and addresses himself as a Bhagavata on this pillar, an epithet scholars consider as evidence of Vāsudeva worship was well established in 1st millennium BCE.
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