Vasudeva

Vasudeva
Vasudeva
	Vasudeva carrying the newborn Krishna to Nanda's house in Gokula across the river Yamuna
Devanagari	वसुदेव
Venerated in	Vaishnavism
Texts	Bhagavata Purana, Harivamsa, Vishnu Purana, Brahma Purana, Mahabharata
Personal information
Spouse	Rohini, Devaki, and various other wives
Children	Balarama, Krishna, Subhadra, and various other children
Dynasty	Yaduvamsha-Chandravamsha

Vasudeva (Sanskrit: वसुदेव, IAST: Vasudeva), also called Anakadundubhi (anakas and dundubhis both refer to drums, after the musicians who played these instruments at the time of his birth),^[1]^[2] is the father of the Hindu deities Krishna (Vāsudeva, i.e. "son of Vasudeva"), Balarama, and Subhadra. He was a king of the Vrishnis, and a Yadava prince.^[3] The son of the Yadava king Shurasena, he was also the second cousin of Nanda, the foster-father of Krishna.^[4]^[5]^[6] His sister Kunti was married to Pandu.

The patronymic Vāsudeva (with a pronounced ā) is a popular name of Krishna, the son of Vasudeva and Devaki. "Vāsudeva" is a vṛddhi, a derivative of the short form "Vasudeva", a linguistic pragmatic in Sanskrit signifying "of, belonging to, descended from".^[7] "Vasudeva" as an object of worship in Hinduism usually refers to the son Vāsudeva (Krishna), rather than his father Vasudeva.

^ Garg, Gaṅgā Rām (1992). Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World. Concept Publishing Company. p. 408. ISBN 978-81-7022-375-7.
^ Ph.D, Lavanya Vemsani (2016). Krishna in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Hindu Lord of Many Names: An Encyclopedia of the Hindu Lord of Many Names. ABC-CLIO. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-61069-211-3.
^ Williams, Joanna Gottfried (1981). Kalādarśana: American Studies in the Art of India. BRILL. p. 129. ISBN 978-90-04-06498-0.
^ Gopal Chowdhary (2014). The Greatest Farce of History. Partridge Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-4828-1925-0.
^ Sanghi, Ashwin (2012). The Krishna key. Chennai: Westland. p. Key7. ISBN 978-93-81626-68-9. Retrieved 9 June 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Lok Nath Soni (2000). The Cattle and the Stick: An Ethnographic Profile of the Raut of Chhattisgarh. Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Department of Culture, Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Department of Culture, 2000 Original from the University of Michigan. p. 16. ISBN 978-81-85579-57-3.
^ Fortson (2004:116f)

[1] Garg, Gaṅgā Rām (1992). Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World. Concept Publishing Company. p. 408. ISBN 978-81-7022-375-7.

[2] Ph.D, Lavanya Vemsani (2016). Krishna in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Hindu Lord of Many Names: An Encyclopedia of the Hindu Lord of Many Names. ABC-CLIO. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-61069-211-3.

[3] Williams, Joanna Gottfried (1981). Kalādarśana: American Studies in the Art of India. BRILL. p. 129. ISBN 978-90-04-06498-0.

[GBook1-4] Gopal Chowdhary (2014). The Greatest Farce of History. Partridge Publishing. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-4828-1925-0.

[tkk-5] Sanghi, Ashwin (2012). The Krishna key. Chennai: Westland. p. Key7. ISBN 978-93-81626-68-9. Retrieved 9 June 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}

[Lok_Nath_Soni-6] Lok Nath Soni (2000). The Cattle and the Stick: An Ethnographic Profile of the Raut of Chhattisgarh. Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Department of Culture, Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Department of Culture, 2000 Original from the University of Michigan. p. 16. ISBN 978-81-85579-57-3.

[Fortson116-7] Fortson (2004:116f)

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