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Identifier: hindumythologyve00wilk (find matches)
Title: Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Wilkins, William Joseph, 1843-1902
Subjects: Mythology, Hindu Legends, Hindu
Publisher: Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & co. London, W. Thacker & co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and, instead of seeing her with a lover, would findher engaged in worshipping a goddess. Her husband happeningto come soon after this, and finding her so employed, joinedwith her in the worship of Krishna in the form of Kali. Itis Radha whose name is ever associated with Krishna inhymns, songs, prayers, and pictures ; at this day all the wivesof this deity are forgotten, but Radha is worshipped alongwith her lover. As Krishna was dancing on one occasion with these women,a (Union named Arishta, in the form of a fierce bull, savagelyattacked him. Krishna quietly waited its approach, and, seizinghim as an alligator would have done, held him by the hornswhilst he pressed his sides with his knees ; he then wrung his * It is this incident in Krishnas history which is celebrated yearly at theRasajattra. The Krishna Avatara. 177 throat as if it had been a piece of wet cloth, and at last tearingoff his horns beat him to death with them. After some years Kansa is informed of Krishnas existence,
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RAUHA WORSHIPPING KRISHNA AS KALI and, as we have noticed above, sent various demons to slay him ;but as these efforts failed, the king determined on a grandscheme by which he hoped to rid himself of his dreaded foe.He accordingly sent Akrura, one of the few good men in hiskingdom, with a most polite invitation to Krishna and Balaramato visit him at his capital, to witness some athletic sports ; and,. N i 78 The Puranic Deities. in the hope that they being off their guard would fall an easy prey,ordered a demon named Kesin, in the form of a horse, to attackthem on the road. But Krishna is more than a match for the fiend ;he meets the horse and fearlessly thrusts his hand in its mouth,and, causing it to swell, bursts the horse into two parts : henceone of Krishnas many names is Kesava, the slayer of Kesin. Akrura, having told Krishna of the ill-feeling of Kansa and ofthe plots that have been made against his life, and being greatlyencouraged with the assurance that in three days Kansa

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