This figure discovered that he was fated to kill his cousin after taking that child into his lap, whereupon the exta limbs vanished from Shishupala's body.
This figure discovered that he was fated to kill his cousin after taking that child into his lap, whereupon the exta limbs vanished from Shishupala's body. The bulk of the Harivamsa is structured around the life of this figure, whose death brings on the Kali Yuga. He was suspected by his mother of stealing butter as a child and was mortally wounded after a hunter mistook his foot for a deer. This figure is often depicted while sitting with a consort wearing yellow robes and a peacock feather, and he married (*) Rukimi and thousands of other maidens after freeing them from Narakasura. Yasoda and Nanda adopted this figure, who defeated Pootna, a monster sent by his uncle Kamsa to kill him. While in Vrindavana, he played the flute to seduce Radha, one of the gopi, or milkmaids. During the Battle of Kurukshetra, he served as charioteer to Arjuna, to whom he revealed the Bhagavad Gita. For 10 points, name this blue-skinned eighth avatar of Vishnu.
This figure discovered that he was fated to kill his cousin after taking that child into his lap, whereupon the exta limbs vanished from Shishupala's body.
Krishna