About 3,000 years B.C., Kamsa, a tyrant of Mathura whom the gods wanted to punish for the exactions and other evils he did to his people, learned from an oracle that he would be killed by one of his nephews, so he slit the throats of his sister Devakï's six children one by one and imprisoned her and her husband Vasudeva.
Then, God Vishnu incarnated in Krisna, the seventh son of Devaki, before he was born, and had him hidden in the region of Vrindavan and cared for by the shepherd Nanda and his wife Yasoda (Yashoda, Yasoda) who brought him up.
BalaKrisna (Sanskrit for Krishna Child) grew up, had affairs with the shepherdess Radha, defeated the warriors of his uncle, whom he killed with his own hands, and freed his parents.
These are the facts, narrated in the Mahabharata (epic written in Sanskrit between 200 B.C. and 500 A.D.) about Krisna, (the black, the dark), hero of the Yadava tribe and later in the Hindu religion, eighth avatara or incarnation of the God Vishnu, guarantor of the maintenance of the world. He is worshipped as a child, as a god of love, as a hero and as a demigod. His most famous shrines are Mathura and Jagannatha in Puri.