Biography Krishna

Krishna, more Krshna – deity of the ancient Indian religions, 8 th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. AK is not known in the Vedic period and receives a value only later, when the cult of Vishnu attains its highest development. There is reason to think that Karl was the first local folk deities.

Perhaps Karl should be seen in the Indian Heracles, the cult of which in the valley of the Ganges said Megasthenes in the III. BC Chr. In the II. History is already the content C. dramatic representations in India. Legends of K. say that, at the request of all the gods, Vishnu, in order to rid the world of evil spirits, and Kangxi especially from the tyrant king of Mathura, on the River. Yamuna, he decided to incarnate in the 8 th child of Queen Devaki, Vasudeva's wife and sister Kangxi. Aware of the prophecy that the child subsequently deprive his throne and life, Kanza tries to destroy him, but his father relates it to the shepherd Nanda on education and issues for the daughter of a shepherd's daughter Devaki. When the deception was opened, Kanza orders poison all newborn children in their state, to destroy the AK, but the latter, thanks to its wonderful strength and cunning, happily avoids all the wiles of Kangxi.

Further legends tell of a life among the shepherds K., heroism, they are committed in the fight against evil spirits, on his dancing with the cowherd and the love affairs, especially about his love for the shepherdess Radge (Radha). In this period of his life earned him the nickname K. Govinda Gopala or, ie, the shepherd, Bootes. Hearing about the visit K. and his brother Balarama among shepherds, Kansa invites the brothers to their city Mathura on a controversy with his fighters, K. Here is killing all the fighters and most Kansu.

Further legends injected KA into the war Panduidov and Kuruidov, which depicted the Mahabharata, with what Karl is on the side Panduidov and his advice helps them to destroy enemies. After many victories over the demons and fight with the god Indra, AK, pursuant to the curse pronounced upon him his wife heads Kuruidov king Drtarashtry, decimating the tribe Yadav, to which he belonged, and dies, struck by an arrow hunter, who took his ghazal. Being a popular cult deity primarily erotic K. religio-philosophical poem Bhagavad Gita identified with the supreme being, embodied in human form and sets out a system of Indian religious philosophy, Vedanta representing a connection with some of the concepts of teaching school Sankoh. Name of KV, which means "black", legend explains the dark color of his body.

Interest in the Indian legends of Krishna was filed in European science similarity of some of them with the testimony of the gospel about the childhood of Jesus Christ. The famous Sanskrit Weber tried to explain this similarity influence of Christian teaching on the doctrine of Karl (see his study "Ueber die Krishnajanmashtami – Krishna's Geburts-Fest", Berlin 1867), and borrowing from the Indians, he elevates to the days of ancient Christianity (St. Thomas ) in India. Other scholars deny such borrowing. See Barth, "The religions of India" (London, 1891, pp. 219 – 224).