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==Imprisonment== [[File:Birth & escape of krishna vmpa musueum.jpg|thumb|Birth and escape of Krishna.]] Devaki and Vasudeva were imprisoned by Kamsa due to the paranoia that had taken root in the tyrant's mind.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mahabharata-resources.org/harivamsa/vishnuparva/hv_2_001.html |title=harivaMsha in the mahAbharata - viShNuparva: Chapter 1 - Advent of Narada and Kansa's Response |access-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425010154/http://mahabharata-resources.org/harivamsa/vishnuparva/hv_2_001.html|archive-date=25 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://bhagavata.org/canto10/chapter1.html#Text%2064|title=Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 10|chapter=1|publisher=Bhagavata.org}}</ref> Her six children were killed, while the seventh [[Balarama]] survived after being transferred by divine will into the uterus of [[Rohini (wife of Vasudeva)|Rohini]], one of the other wives of Vasudeva.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://bhagavata.org/canto10/chapter2.html#Text%208|title=Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 10|chapter=2|publisher=Bhagavata.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp118.htm|title=The Vishnu Purana: Book V|chapter=I|pages=490–491}}</ref> Devaki's six dead sons were named Kírttimat, Sushena, Udayin, Bhadrasena, Rijudasa, and Bhadradeha.<ref name="sacred-texts1"/> According to the [[Harivamsa]], they were the reincarnations of the sons of the asura [[Kalanemi]]. They had performed intense austerities to worship the creator deity [[Brahma]], unbeknownst to their own grandfather, [[Hiranyakashipu]]. The latter, furious at their actions, cursed them to be born on earth and be slain by Kansa, who himself was a form of their father.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Debroy |first=Bibek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRnpDAAAQBAJ&q=harivamsa |title=Harivamsha |date=2016-09-09 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-93-86057-91-4}}</ref> Devaki soon mothered [[Balarama]] through the surrogacy of Rohini.<ref name="sacred-texts2">{{cite book|chapter-url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp120.htm#page_502 |title=The Vishnu Purana: Book V|chapter=III|page=502}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 10|publisher=Bhagavata.org |chapter=3|chapter-url=http://bhagavata.org/canto10/chapter3.html#Text%2051}}</ref> When Devaki delivered Krishna, he revealed his divine form to his parents, and ordered Vasudeva to take him to [[Gokul|Gokulam]], placing all the prison guards under a spell of slumber, so that Kamsa would not realise that his prophesied killer had been born. Vasudeva swapped Krishna with [[Vindhyavasini|Yogamaya]], the daughter who had been born to Nanda and Yashoda on the very same day, and returned to the cell.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-08-30 |title=Yogamaya enters into the womb of Yashoda and Hari into Devaki [Chapter II] |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/vishnu-purana-wilson/d/doc116024.html |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=www.wisdomlib.org}}</ref> When Kamsa stormed into the chamber after the spell had worn out, he deduced that Devaki had given birth to a girl. Devaki protested against the killing of the daughter of [[Nanda Baba|Nanda]] and [[Yashoda]], but Kamsa hurled her against a rock, recognising that the gender of his prophesied slayer had not been specified. Yashoda's daughter transformed into an eight-armed goddess, and stated, "Fool, your destroyer has already been born elsewhere." She subsequently vanished into the heavens.<ref name="sacred-texts2" /> Devaki and Vasudeva's imprisonment came to an end after Kamsa's death.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://bhagavata.org/canto10/chapter44.html#Text%2050|title=Srimad Bhagavatam: Canto 10|chapter=44|publisher=Bhagavata.org}}</ref>
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