Originally posted by: Cool-n-Fresh
I don't think he had any children before his relation with Devaki.Look at this from SBP.Nanda thereafter entrusted the protection of Gokula [the cow village] to his cowherd men and went to Mathur to pay Kamsa the yearly taxes over his profit oh best of the Kuru dynasty.Vasudeva who heard that his [younger step-]brother Nanda had arrived [in the city] - as it turned out to pay his tribute to the king - thereupon went to his camp.When Nanda all of a sudden saw him before his eyes, he very pleased rose to his feet as if his body had found a new life. Overwhelmed by love and affection he embraced his dear friend. Welcoming him with all regards, he assigned him a seat and informed about his health.Vasudeva, attached as he was, then asked about his two sons, saying the following oh ruler over the world. 'Dear brother Nanda, advanced in age and having no son, you were desperately longing for one. What a great fortune now to have gotten a son! What a great fortune also to see you here today, it is like a rebirth. Despite of being around in this world of birth and death, it is so very hard to meet again your loved ones! Like things that afloat in a river are carried away by the force of the waves, we, intimately living together, do not stay [together] in one place because our karmic ways are diverging. Is everything alright with your cow business? Is there enough water, grass, plants and such in the great forest where you are living now with your friends?Oh brother, does my son who with His mother lives in your house, consider you His father and is He a sweet boy under your loving care? A person's three goals of life as described in the Vedic literatures [the regulation of one's lusts, income and rituals], find their consequence and belief when one is together. But that is not so when that togetherness has become difficult, then they lose their meaning.'
S'r Nanda said: 'Kamsa killed, alas, the many sons you had with Devak and also the one remaining child, the youngest, a daughter went to heaven. Fate determines the end of all things, providence is elevated above every living being and the unseen is the ultimate truth of all souls. He who knows this will never get bewildered.'Here Vasudev doesn't refer to any other children except Balaram&Krishna(as Nand's son).Also he enquired about his son(Balaram) and mother(Rohini) of that child but he wasn't anxious about other women...Even Nand doesn't speak about any other child except those 8 born to Devaki.He even doesn't indicate or question about other women.Why!?!?Perhaps it was only Rohini before Devaki and coz she was childless he went for another alliance and we know what happened from there on.
Originally posted by: Cool-n-Fresh
I don't think he had any children before his relation with Devaki.Look at this from SBP.Nanda thereafter entrusted the protection of Gokula [the cow village] to his cowherd men and went to Mathur to pay Kamsa the yearly taxes over his profit oh best of the Kuru dynasty.Vasudeva who heard that his [younger step-]brother Nanda had arrived [in the city] - as it turned out to pay his tribute to the king - thereupon went to his camp.When Nanda all of a sudden saw him before his eyes, he very pleased rose to his feet as if his body had found a new life. Overwhelmed by love and affection he embraced his dear friend. Welcoming him with all regards, he assigned him a seat and informed about his health.Vasudeva, attached as he was, then asked about his two sons, saying the following oh ruler over the world. 'Dear brother Nanda, advanced in age and having no son, you were desperately longing for one. What a great fortune now to have gotten a son! What a great fortune also to see you here today, it is like a rebirth. Despite of being around in this world of birth and death, it is so very hard to meet again your loved ones! Like things that afloat in a river are carried away by the force of the waves, we, intimately living together, do not stay [together] in one place because our karmic ways are diverging. Is everything alright with your cow business? Is there enough water, grass, plants and such in the great forest where you are living now with your friends?Oh brother, does my son who with His mother lives in your house, consider you His father and is He a sweet boy under your loving care? A person's three goals of life as described in the Vedic literatures [the regulation of one's lusts, income and rituals], find their consequence and belief when one is together. But that is not so when that togetherness has become difficult, then they lose their meaning.'
S'r Nanda said: 'Kamsa killed, alas, the many sons you had with Devak and also the one remaining child, the youngest, a daughter went to heaven. Fate determines the end of all things, providence is elevated above every living being and the unseen is the ultimate truth of all souls. He who knows this will never get bewildered.'Here Vasudev doesn't refer to any other children except Balaram&Krishna(as Nand's son).Also he enquired about his son(Balaram) and mother(Rohini) of that child but he wasn't anxious about other women...Even Nand doesn't speak about any other child except those 8 born to Devaki.He even doesn't indicate or question about other women.Why!?!?Perhaps it was only Rohini before Devaki and coz she was childless he went for another alliance and we know what happened from there on.
Originally posted by: Surya_krsnbhakt
@purple bold, He asks about his son with Rohini, so that implies that by that time, only one son had been born to Rohini, so Krita is not the eldest... okay..So that is the asnwer to Qn. 1Uh.. And Qns 2 and 3?
Sorry, I don't get you.
Originally posted by: Cool-n-Fresh
^ ^ I mean to say if at all he had wives & children other than Rohini,Devaki&Balaram,Krishna why wouldn't he enquire about their welfare when he met Nand!?(Read that part from SBP,he's eager to learn about Krishna primarily,then Balaram followed by his Mother Rohini)Even Nand doesn't mention anything like your wife 1,2,3...16 and your dozens of kids are safe in my house!
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