Lord Krishna

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Krishna (कृष्ण) was of the royal family of Mathura, and was the eighth son born to the princess Devaki, and her husband Vasudeva in the Yaduvanshi Jat clan.

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Birth of Krishna

Mathura was the capital of the closely linked clans of Vrishni, Andhaka, and Bhoja. They are generally known as Yadavas after their eponymous ancestor Yadu, and sometimes as Surasenas after another famed ancestor. Vasudeva and Devaki belonged to these clans. The king Kamsa, Devaki's brother, had ascended the throne by imprisoning his father, King Ugrasena. Afraid of a prophecy that predicted his death at the hands of Devaki's eighth son, he had the couple cast into prison where he planned to kill all of Devaki's children at birth. After killing the first six children, and Devaki's apparent miscarriage of the seventh, Krishna took birth. As his life was in danger he was smuggled out to be raised by his foster parents Yasoda and Nanda in Gokula, Mahavana. Two of his siblings also survived, Balarama (Devaki's seventh child, transferred to the womb of Rohini, Vasudeva's first wife) and Subhadra (daughter of Vasudeva and Devaki born much later than Balarama and Krishna).

Vrishni clan

Krishna belonged to Vrishni clan, which is a Jat clan. Vrishni (वृषणि) was a descendent of Yadu in Yadav vansh. Vrishni was born as eldest son of Maharaja Madhu in 19th generation of Yadu, the son of Yayati. He is a Chandravanshi Jat kshatriya. Vrishnis were the descendant of Vrishni. Krishna belonged to this branch of the Chandravanshi of Vrishnis from whom he got the name Varshneya. [1] The people of Dwaraka were known as the Vrishnis.

Migration of Vrishnis to Dwaraka

Jarasandha, father-in-law of Kans, invaded Mathura with a vast army; and though Krishna destroyed his army of demons, another asura, Kalayavan by name, surrounded Mathura with another army of thirty million monstrous fiends. Then Krishna thought it well to depart to Dwaraka. [2]

Wives of Krishna

Krishna had 16,108 wives. Krishna married Rukmini, daughter of King Bhishmaka of Vidarbha. He also married Mitrabinda, Satyabhama, Jambavati and others, winning each by great deeds; and another time, when a demon named Bhaumasura carried off and concealed many thousand princesses, Krishna pursued and slew him, and received these also into his house. Each of his wives had ten sons and one daughter. While Krishna was ruling at Dwaraka, Duryodhana was oppressing the Pandavas at Hastinapur and sought to compass their death. Krishna and Balarama went to give them help, and it was while Krishna was the Pandavas’ guest that he married Kalindi, daughter of Sun.[3]

End of Vrishnis

After the death of Duryodhana in Mahabharata, Krishna received the curse of his mother. She bewailed the death of her son and of friend and foe; then recognizing Hari as the Prime Mover, the One behind All, she cursed him for letting such things befall. This was her curse: that after 36 years Krishna should perish alone miserably and his people, the Vrishnis, should be destroyed. These things in due time came to pass. A madness seized the people of Dwaraka so that they fell upon one another and were slain, together with all sons and grandsons of Krishna. Only the women and Krishna and Balarama remained alive. Then Balarama went to the forest, and Krishna first sent a messanger to the Kuru city, to place the city and women of Dwaraka under the Pandavas protection, and then took leave of his father; afterward he himself sought the forest, where Balarama awaited him. Krishna discovered his brother seated under a mighty tree on the edge of the forest; he sat like a yogi, and behold, there came forth from his mouth a mighty snake, the thousand headed naga, Ananta, and glided away to ocean. Ocean himself and the sacred rivers and many divine nagas came to meet him. Thus Krishna beheld his brother depart from human world, and he wandered alone in forest. He thought of Gandhari’s curse and all that had befallen, and he knew that the time had come for his own departure. He restrained his senses in yoga and laid himself down. Then there came a hunter that way and thought him a deer, and loosed a shaft and pierced his foot; but when he came close the hunter beheld a man wrapped in yellow robes practicing yoga. Thinking himself an offender, he touched his feet. Then Krishna rose and gave him comfort, and himself ascended to Heaven.[4]

Arjuna went to Dwaraka and brought away the women and children of the Vrishnis, and set out for Kurukshetra. On the way a band of warriors attacked the cavalcade and carried away a great part of women. Arjuna established the others with the remnants of Krishna’s descendants in new cities; but Rukmini and many others of Krishna’s wives became Sati, burning themselves on pyre, and others became ascetics and nuns. The waters of ocean advanced and overwhelmed Dwaraka so that no trace remained.[5]

Krishna was Jat

The evidences from history and literature in support of the fact that Krishna was Jat are as under:-

  • When Jarasandha invaded Mathura with a vast army; and another asura, Kalayavan by name, surrounded Mathura with army of thirty million monstrous fiends, Then Krishna departed to Dwaraka along with Andhakas, Vrishnis, Bhojas etc clans. Mahabharata mentions in chapter 25, shloka 26 that Lord Krishna founded a federation ‘Gana-sangha’ of Andhak and Vrishni clans. This federation was known as ‘Gyati-sangh’. Each member of this ‘Gyati-sangh’ was known as ‘Gyat’. Krishna was chief of this sangha. Over a period of time ‘Gyati’ became ‘Gyat’ and it changed to Jat. The use of sutra - Jat jhat sanghate in sanskrit by Panini's grammar seems to have started from here. Thus Krishna is the real ancestor and founder of Jats. [6] [7]
  • According to Pandit Lekhraj descendants of Yadu are known as Yadavas after their eponymous ancestor Yadu. Yadu changes to Yadav which changes to Jadav and Jat as per Sanskrit grammar. [8]
  • Nazmul Gani in Karnam-e-Rajput writes that Jat community is right in having proud of being descended from Krishna.[9]
  • The Arabian traveller Al-Biruni has mentioned that Jats have descended from Lord Krishna. [10][11] The Muslim contries have a notion that Jats are the ancestors of Yadavas.
  • James Todd writes that Jats are descendants of Krishna. [12][13]
  • Dr S. Jabir Raza of Aligarh Muslim University writed that as a mythological origin, jats are said to be the descendants of the gods Shiva and Krishna. [14]
  • Mr Neshfield, a renowned scholar of Indology, writes that The word Jat is nothing more than the modern Hindi pronunciation of Yadu or Jadu, the tribe in which Krishna was born.
  • UN Sharma has mentioned the chronology of Krishna in which starting from Sindhupal in 64th generation of Krishna to Bharatpur ruler Maharaja Brijendra Singh (1929-1948) all the rulers are mentioned as Yaduvanshi Jats. [16]
  • Thakur Deshraj has mentioned in "Jat Itihas" that Bharatpur rulers were Chandravanshi, which was a branch Vrishni clan Yaduvanshis in which was born Krishna. [17]
तीन जाति जादव की, अंधक, विस्‍नी, भोज ।
तीन भांति तेई भये, तै फिर तिनही षोज ।।
पूर्व जनम ते जादव विस्‍नी ।
तेई प्रकटे आइ सिनसिनी ।।

Translation:-The Yadavas had three clans of Andhaka, Vrishni and Bhoja out of which was originated the Sinsinwar clan.

  • Raja Laxman Singh writes in Memoirs of Bulandshahar that it is a verified fact that the Jats of Bharatpur are descendants of Yadavas in which was born Krishna. The states of Bharatpur, Karauli, Jaisalmer, Mysore and Sirmaur link there ancestry with Krishna.[21]
  • Prakash Chandra Chandawat has conducted Ph.D. research work on Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur in which he writes that The Bharatpur Jat rulers are from the Yadavavansha descended from Krishna. The rulers of Bharatpur and Karauli have a common ancestor Sindpal, in the twelfth generation of Sindpal were Tahanpal, whose youngest son is the ancestor of Karauli rulers and third son Madanpal is ancestor of Bharatpur rulers. After the puranic records of Yaduvanshi Krishna, the historical records are found from the time of Dharmpal, who wasin 77th generation of Krishna. The ancestor of Bharatpur rulers was Madanpal and his descendant was Balchand in the 19th generation.[22]
  • Jat historian Bhaleram Beniwal has written after recent researches with evidences in his book "Jāton kā Ādikālīn Itihās" that Krishna was by all evidences noting other than Jat. He has mentioned the above referred evidences in addition to the following authors which mention Krishna as Jats. [23] These are Yogendrapal Shastri[24], Motilal Gupta [25] Walter Hamilton [26].

References

  1. ↑ Dr Mahendra Singh Arya, Dharmpal Singh Dudi, Kishan Singh Faujdar & Vijendra Singh Narwar: Adhunik Jat Itihasa (The modern history of Jats), Agra 1998
  2. ↑ Sister Nivedita & Ananda K.Coomaraswamy: Myths and Legends of the Hindus and Bhuddhists, Kolkata, 2001 ISBN 81-7505-197-3
  3. ↑ Sister Nivedita & Ananda K.Coomaraswamy: Myths and Legends of the Hindus and Bhuddhists, Kolkata, 2001 ISBN 81-7505-197-3
  4. ↑ Sister Nivedita & Ananda K.Coomaraswamy: Myths and Legends of the Hindus and Bhuddhists, Kolkata, 2001 ISBN 81-7505-197-3
  5. ↑ Sister Nivedita & Ananda K.Coomaraswamy: Myths and Legends of the Hindus and Bhuddhists, Kolkata, 2001 ISBN 81-7505-197-3
  6. ↑ Mahabharata: Krishna – Narad Uvach
  7. ↑ Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992. Page 106-109
  8. ↑ Parmesh Sharma & Rajpal Shastri: Kshatriyon ka Itihas
  9. ↑ Nazmul Gani:Kārnām-e-Rājput
  10. ↑ Alberuni's India, vol i, p 401
  11. ↑ Al-Biruni, India:Translated by Kayamuddin, Published by National Book Trust, India, 1997 page-176
  12. ↑ Cf. Pali inscription, no. 1, Tod, op.cit., p621
  13. ↑ James Todd: Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 2 Vols., Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London, 1972 (reprint), first published in 1829
  14. ↑ Dr S. Jabir Raza:The Jats - Their Role and Contribution to the Socio-Economic Life and Polity of North and North West India, Vol.I, 2004. Page 55, Ed. by Dr Vir Singh , Publisher - M/S Originals (an imprint of low priced publications), A-6, Nimri commercial Centre, Near Ashok Vihar, Phase-IV, Delhi-110052.
  15. ↑ Dr. Prakash Chandra Chandawat: Maharaja Suraj Mal aur unka yug, Jaypal Agencies Agra, 1982
  16. ↑ UN Sharma :Jaton ka Navin Itihas
  17. ↑ Thakur Deshraj: Jat Itihasa, Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi. 1936, Page 628 (in Hindi)
  18. ↑ Sudan: Sujan-charitra, page-4
  19. ↑ Somnath: Sujanvilas,page 133
  20. ↑ Udayram: Sujan samva
  21. ↑ Raja Laxman Singh: Memoirs of Bulandshahar
  22. ↑ Dr. Prakash Chandra Chandawat: Maharaja Suraj Mal Aur Unka Yug (1745-1763). Jaypal Agencies, Agra. 1982, Page 15 (in Hindi)
  23. ↑ Bhaleram Beniwal : "Jāton kā Ādikālīn Itihās" (page 26-30), Jaypal Agencies Agra
  24. ↑ Yogendrapal Shastri:Jaton ka utkarsh (page286)
  25. ↑ Motilal Gupta: Matsya Pradesh ki Hindi Sahitya ko den (page214)
  26. ↑ Walter Hamilton: The east India Gazeteer (Vol. 1, page 233)

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