Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 7:31-40

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Sri Krsna-janma-khanda

The Birth of Lord Krsna

Chapter 7: Verse 31-40

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 31.O saintly one, let your sister go. How many wise men are there? Ask them what you should do. 32.Friend, I will give you my eighth son. Why must I have an eighth son? 33.Or I will give you all my children. O best of the wise, none of them would be very dear to me. 34.O king of kings, let your sister go. She is like your own daughter. You, yourself reared her, every day giving her delicious foods to eat. 35.Hearing Vasudeva’s words, King Kamsa released his sister. Then Vasudeva took his bride to their palace. 36.O Narada, in the course of time six sons were born. Vasudeva gave each one to Kamsa, and Kamsa killed them all, one by one. 37.When Devaki was pregnant the seventh time, frightened Kamsa posted guards at her door. Then goddess Yogamaya protected the unborn child, pulling it out of Devaki’s womb and placing it in Rohini’s womb. 38.The guards said there was a miscarriage. Because the seventh child, who was the Personality of Godhead Himself, was pulled (sankarsana) from the womb, He was called Sankarsana. 39.Then Devaki became pregnant for an eight time. This time there was no child in her womb. It was filled with air. 40.When the ninth month passed and the tenth came, Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead who sees everything, glanced at Devaki’s womb.