The Kurus had heard of a wonderful occurrence in Mathura, the city where Kunti had been born. Kunti had a brother named Vasudeva who had been imprisoned by the wicked King Kamsa. This powerful monarch had been viciously terrorizing brahmins and other kings. Hearing a divine prophesy that Vasudeva's eighth child would kill him, Kamsa imprisoned both Vasudeva and his wife Devaki. He then killed their first six children at birth. But somehow, despite Kamsa's vigilance, the seventh and eighth children, Balarama and Krishna, had escaped death. By some mystical arrangement Krishna had been carried
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