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N OF CULTURE
 
GOVERNMENT
 
SRIMAD BHAGAVATA
 
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powerful Kamsa, with the support of

(Jarasandha) the king of the Magadhas.*

oppressed the Yadus.
 
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हतेषु षट्सु बालेषु देवक्या औग्रसेनिना ।

सप्तमो वैष्णवं धाम यमनन्तं प्रचक्षते ।

गर्भो बभूव देवक्या हर्षशोकविवर्धनः ॥
 

When six sons of Devaki had been
 

killed by Kamsa, that partial manifesta-

tion of the Lord whom they call Ananta,

became the seventh child in the womb of

Devaki, causing at once great delight and

great sorrow.
 

 
भगवानपि विश्वात्मा विदित्वा कंसजं भयम् ।

यदूनां निजनाथानां योगमायां समादिशत् ॥
 

And the Lord who is the Soul of the

universe, understanding the fear inspired

by Kamsa in the Yadus of whom He was

to become the chief, directed (His own

Mystic Power), the Goddess Yogamaya :
 

 
* Jarasandha, the Magadha king, was Kamsa's

father-in-law.