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Yasoda
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Yasoda

Yashoda (Yaśodā), also spelt as Yasoda, is the foster-mother to the god Krishna and a wife of Nanda in the Puranic texts of Hinduism. Within the Bhagavata Purana, it is described that Krishna who was born to Devaki, was given to Yashoda and Nanda in Gokul exchanging her daughter Yogmaya by Krishna's father Vasudeva on the night of his birth, for his protection from Devaki's brother, Kansa, the king of...

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Branded Yamfly

speciesYasoda tripunctata

Branded Yamfly

speciesYasoda pita

Yasoda pitane

speciesYasoda pitane

Yasoda androconifera

speciesYasoda androconifera

Yasoda robinsoni

speciesYasoda robinsoni

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 475920.