Everyone knows about the parents of Lord Krishna.His real parents were Vasudeva and Devaki,while his foster parents were Nanda and Yashoda.When Krishna was born,he showed his four armed form to Vasudeva and Devaki and told them that they were his devotees in their previous births and hence they had him as their son even in their previous births.In their first birth they were Sage Sutapa and Prishni and the Lord had born as their son called Prishnigarbha.In their second birth they were born as Sage Kashyapa and Aditi and the Lord had born as Vamana to them.Now they were Vasudeva and Devaki and the Lord had born as Krishna to them.This is told in Bhagavatam.The Brahmavaivarta purana tells another story of why Kashyapa and Aditi were reborn as Vasudeva and Devaki.Once Aditi, after her periods, decorated herself and awaited her husband for lovemaking.But her servants informed her that he was enjoying with his other wife Kadru at that time.Angered by this,Aditi cursed Kadru to be reborn as a human being on earth.Later, Kadru who came to know of this also cursed Aditi to be reborn as a human being on earth.Kashyapa reassured Kadru that he too would be born on earth to accompany her as he would get the association of the supreme Lord.He then went to Aditi and satisfied her desire,as a result of which Indra was born.Now as a result of these curses,Kadru was born as Rohini and Aditi as Devaki, while Kashyapa was born as Vasudeva.Both Rohini and Devaki became the wives of Vasudeva.But Rohini was sent to Gokula to live under the care of Nanda to protect her from the wicked king Kamsa.Devaki was imprisoned along with Vasudeva by Kamsa to kill their children.The seventh baby of Devaki was transferred from her womb to Rohini's womb by Yogamaya and that baby was Balarama.The eighth child of Devaki was Lord Krishna whom Vasudeva shifted to Gokula to the side of Yashoda taking her girl child with himself.
How could Nanda and Yashoda get the association of Lord Krishna as their son?The Brahmavaivarta purana tells a story for this.In their previous life they were a vasu (a type of demigod, totally being eight vasus) called Drona and his wife called Dhara.They did a severe penance for ten thousand years at Gautamashrama near Gandamadhana mountain to get a darshana or vision of Lord Krishna (As per Brahmavaivarta purana Lord Krishna is the supreme God in Goloka even above Vaikuntha of Lord Vishnu though both are essentially same). But since they didn't get the darshana they prepared a fire and got ready to fall in it.Then a celestial voice told them not to do so and that they would get the darshana of Lord Krishna in their next life as their son.Accordingly, Drona and Dhara were born as Nanda and Yashoda and as a result of their previous penance they got Lord Krishna as their foster son.
The Brahmavaivarta purana tells many interesting stories of previous births of many popular pauranik characters.
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