Since lord Krishna birthday (Janmashtami) is coming near, I willbe writing next few artic les on lord Krishna. I have alreadypos ted many artic les on lord Krishna. I f you haven’t read them,then please go through the below link: P roof of Lord krishna exis tence-1 Sc ientific P roof of lord Krishna exis tence V arious Maya-I llus ions of lord krishna Stories of radha krishna love Why Lord krishna had more than 16000 wives Why Lord Krishna didnt marry radha C heating and Deception by lord krishna

In this article, I will be trying to lay out the maximum evidence to prove the historicity oflord Krishna. Based on the archeological proof obtained from different part of India, Historians andarcheologist have came to the conclusion that Krishna was the historic character andstory of Mahabharata may be most certainly true. However they still suspects thedivinity of lord Krishna and they consider Krishna as intelligent human having someextra ordinary technology, and the one who followed the path of dharma and karma atits best.

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Lord Krishna, most intelligent human of treta yuga Now no one can prove if the s tories of lord Krishna are true s incethe s tories are more than thousands of year old. I t’s jus t thespiritual experience and faith of the devotees that they believelord Krishna was the supreme divine charac ter. In this series of artic le, I will be discuss ing jus t the eventsrelated to lord Krishna. Believing it or non-believing, I leave it toyou. There are many names of lord Krishna. These names werehonored to him according to the karma (Deeds) he did in his life.Some of the names are: Gopal- ‘Go’ means C ow and ‘pal’ means protec tor. So, lord Krishna

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was given the name Gopal because he was the protector of cows.

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P rotec tor of cow-Gopala with brother balarama Below are some of the other names with their meaning:

Krishna Dark-C omplexioned Lord

Balgopal The C hild Krishna, The A ll A ttrac tive

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Govinda O ne Who P leases The C ows, The Land A nd The Entire Nature

Sachidanand V igraha Embodiment of exis tence, A wareness and blis s

Govardhanchalo Dhartreya L ifter of Govardhan H il

Kama janakaye O ne generating des ires in worldly mind

Gopalpriya Lover O f C owherds

Kamsantak Slayer O f Kamsa

Keshava O ne Who Has Long, Black Matted Locks

Madhusudan Slayer O f Demon Madhu

Murlidhar O ne Who Holds The Flute

Nandgopala The Son O f Nand

Parthasarthi C harioteer O f P artha - A rjuna

Sahasrajit O ne Who V anquishes Thousands

Sarvapalaka P rotec tor O f A ll

Damodar O ne tied with a grinding Stone

Mathura Naresh King of Birth c ity Mathura

Lila-Manush-V igraha A ssuming human form to perform pas times

Shrivas tav Kaus thuba-Dharya Wearing Shri V atsa and Kaus thubha Gem

Yashoda-V atsalya Mother Yashoda's darling child

Megh-varna the one with the color-of-c louds

Murli-manohar s teals hearts by the melody of his flute

Madan-Mohan can mesmerize C upid himself with H is beauty

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Murli-Manohar Krishna kanhaiya There were many other names given to him because of his divineand supreme charac ter. Some of these with their meanings are:

A chyuta Infallible Lord

Adbhutah Wonderful God

Adidev The Lord Of The Lords

Ajanma One Who Is Limitless And Endless

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Ajaya The Conqueror Of Life And Death

Akshara Indestructible Lord

Amrut One Who Is Sweet As Nectar

Anaadih One Who Is The First Cause

Anandsagar Compassionate Lord

Ananta The Endless Lord

Anaya One Who Has No Leader

Aniruddha One Who Cannot Be Obstructed

Aparajeet The Lord Who Cannot Be Defeated

Avyukta One Who Is As Clear As Crystal

Chaturbhuj Four-Armed Lord

Danavendra Granter Of Boons

Dayalu Repositiory Of Compassion

Dayanidhi The Compassionate Lord

Devakinandan Son Of Mother Devaki

Dharmadhyaksha The Lord OF Dharma

Dwarkapati Lord Of Dwarka

Gyaneshwar The Lord Of Knowledge

Hari The Lord Of Nature

Hiranyagarbha The All Powerful Creator

Hrishikesh The Lord Of All Senses

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Jagadguru Preceptor Of The Universe

Jagadisha Protector Of All

Jagannath Lord Of The Universe

Janardhana One Who Bestows Boons On One And All

Jayantah Conqueror Of All Enemies

Jyotiraaditya The Resplendence Of The Sun

Kamalnath The Lord Of Goddess Lakshmi

Kamalnayan The Lord With Lotus Shaped Eyes

Kanjalochana The Lotus-Eyed God

Lakshmikantam The Lord Of Goddess Lakshmi

Lokadhyaksha Lord Of All The Three Lokas (Worlds)

Madan The Lord Of Love

Madhava Knowledge Filled God

Mahendra Lord Of Indra

Manmohan All Pleasing Lord

Manohar Beautiful Lord

Mayur The Lord Who Has A Peacock Feathered-Crest

Mohan All Attractive God

Murali The Flute Playing Lord

Murlimanohar The Flute Playing God

Narayana The Refuge Of Everyone

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Niranjana The Unblemished Lord

Nirguna Without Any Properties

Padmahasta One Who Has Hands Like Lotus

Padmanabha The Lord Who Has A Lotus Shaped Navel

Parabrahmana The Supreme Absolute Truth

Paramatma Lord Of All Beings

Parampurush Supreme Personality

Prajapati Lord Of All Creatures

Punyah Supremely Pure

Purshottam The Supreme Soul

Ravilochana One Who Eye Is The Sun

Sahasraakash Thousand-Eyed Lord

Sahasrapaat Thousand-Footed Lord

Sakshi All Witnessing Lord

Sanatana The Eternal Lord

Sarvajana Omniscient Lord

Sarveshwar Lord Of All Gods

Satyavachana One Who Speaks Only The Truth

Satyavrata The Truth Dedicated Lord

Shantah Peaceful Lord

Shreshta The Most Glorious Lord

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Shrikanta Beautiful Lord

Shyam Dark-Complexioned Lord

Shyamsundara Lord Of The Beautiful Evenings

Sudarshana Handsome Lord

Sumedha Intelligent Lord

Suresham Lord Of All Demi-Gods

Swargapati Lord Of Heavens

Trivikrama Conqueror Of All The Three Worlds

Vaikunthanatha Lord Of Vaikuntha, The Heavenly Abode

Vardhamaanah The Formless Lord

Vasudev All Prevailing Lord

Vishnu All Prevailing Lord

Vishwadakshinah Skilfull And Efficient Lord

Vishwamurti Of The Form Of The Entire Universe

Vishwarupa One Who Displays The Universal Form

Vishwatma Soul Of The Universe

Vrishaparvaa Lord Of Dharma

Yogi The Supreme Master

Yoginampati Lord Of The Yogis

Beside these, there are more 100 names given to lord Krishna. Only an extra-ordinarypersonality can be attributed with so many names. Now for non-believers, here is the list of questions that most devotees would like to

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raise? 1) If Krishna was a mythological character, why there was a need for so many namesor why did anyone tried to derive so many times. How many names does our harrypotter have? 2) Did you ever see any community in the world celebrating the birth or death

anniversaries of any fictitious person? I f lord krishna was a mythologicalcharac ter, then why there was a need of celebrating hisbirthday(janmashtami) and that too in many countries of theworld?

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Lord Krishna birthday (Janmashtami) celebration in Mumbai 3) If he was a mythological character then why many festivals like holi, diwali etcwhich are related to lord Krishna, are celebrated since time unknown. 4) If he was a mythological character and was the creation of one author then whymany other authors and philosophers (Authors from outside India too) are validatingthe creation of that author over the course of time and don’t even care to mention thatKrishna is a fictional character or the story is the fictional story. 5) If lord Krishna was a fictional character, then how come many cities that arementioned in Mahabharata and similar ancient texts still exist? Rarely across the world,is any city name based on the fictional story. 6) Why the folk dance related to lord Krishna (Raas -Leela) is still demonstrated acrossIndia and outside India in countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar etc. 7) Can our saints and sages, who have always spoken the truth since birth, can lie and

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claim a fictional story as true? 8) Has been there any one fictitious character whose story has been written repeatedlyby 10 to 20 authors? Stories of Krishna has been told verbally, non-verbally and literallysince time immemorial by thousands of writers ,sages, poets, and authors in differentlanguages and in different countries of the world.

Raas-Leela 9) Over the course of time, many high-level intellectuals and enlightened individualshave given their life in the devotion of lord Krishna. Why such individuals with great IQ(intelligence) got attracted to the fictional character? India is one of the oldest civilizations on earth and never had a tradition of writingimaginary stories as our country was never short of real-life heroes. Since we are living inkali-yuga, humans are so much bewildered and trapped in materialistic illusions thattheir mind has lost his ability to realize what is right and what is wrong. In this and future articles, we will try to focus on facts and evidences available to claim

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the historicity of lord Krishna. More than hundred years ago, one of the greatestintellectuals of India, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, wrote a remarkable book (Sri KrishnaCharitra) devoted to a scientific study of lord Krishna. To shatter the magnificent history of eastern world, many western authors came up withfalse theories to prove their superiority and dominance over the entire world. One ofsuch theory was a completely baseless theory by max muller called as Aryan InvasionTheory. Many recent discoveries, archeological proof and DNA analysis haveshattered the claims of Aryan Invasion Theory and have pushed back the dates of Vedicliterature to much before than it were generally believed by the early philosophers andhistorians.

A t the top of this page, I have already pos ted two artic leswritten by different authors who tried to sc ientifically prove theexis tence of lord Krishna. In this artic le, we shall examine allsuch evidence available today to unravel the H is toricals ignificance of Krishna.

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Historical period of KrishnaA ccording to Srimad Bhagvatam, Krishna came on Earth at theend of the Dwapar Yug of the 7 th Manvantar of the 1s t Kalpaof the 51s t year of the current Brahma. I f you were not able tounders tand the time span, then let me give you the shortdesc ription Life span of Brahma is 100 years ; Brahma one year of 360 daysis called Kalpas; each day of Brahma is divided into 14Manvantars; and las tly, each Manvantar is divided into 71Maha-Yugas (Eons) with 4 Yugas each

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Birth of Krishna

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C urrently, we are living in Kaliyuga-the las t of the four Yugas .A ccording to as tronomical calculations , Kaliyuga s tarted on20th February 3102 BC E. Bhagvatam dec lares that Kaliyugacouldn't begin till the lord was res iding on earth. So, if this istrue then Krishna was born roughly around 3300-3200 BC E.

Note that some sc riptures s tates that kaliyuga began when lordKrishna completed his s tudies and blew the conch shell given byparshuram in guru ashram.

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A nointing the A nointed O ne - Krishna's Birth C eremony

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Fortuitous ly, we have a large body of archaeological and literaryevidence to guide us in deriving an approximate time-span forhis presence. Epic Mahabharat is one of such earlies t text providingexplic it detailed desc riptions of lord Krishna. Now Mahabharata is not based on life of lord Krishna; ins tead itis based on the his tory of Kurus (P andavs and Kauravs) - Kingof Has tinapur kingdom. So, Mahabharata contains only limitedpart of Krishna's life which direc tly or indirec tly had an effec t onhas tinapur kingdom or other kingdom of bharat varsha (Thosedays India which inc luded full of A s ia). However, the mostfamous , adorned literary text of Mahabharata is the Bhagavad Gita whichshows Krishna as more than just a normal living being. He was treated as the appointedprincely diplomat (Delegate) of the Supreme God or the supreme god Himself.

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Lord Krishna riding a chariot in battlefield of kurukshetra. Grant Morrison - the direc tor of animation-based Mahabharatas tates about gita as - The Gita, with its direct, no-nonsense guide for all the living beings ,is at the very core of the Mahabharata; Whole s tory came intoexis tence because lord Krishna wanted to preach Bhagavad gita tothe mortal living beings of this world. The conflict between brothersin Mahabharata shows the war between duty and des ire, thespiritual and the material, the war fought by human being in theirlife every day.

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Because of the high value based teaching with an ultimatemessage, bhagavad gita has been adorned by intellec tuals allaround the world. Even the greates t of all the sc ientis ts , AlbertEinstein and father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi, applauded bhagavad gita andchanged their way of thinking after reading gita. In fact, Gandhi approach of satyagrahaand non-violence was derived from bhagavad gita. Gandhi has also written a book onbhagavad gita.

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Krishna reveals the Gita to a bewildered A rjuna

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Albert Einstein in his book said that"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created thisuniverse everything else seems so superfluous." In the next article, we will dig up many ancient scriptures including Jain andBuddhist literature to derive out the most probable time span of lord Krishna.

Before ending, wishing all of you a very happy janmashtami.

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