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For thousands of years, the people of India have believed in the divinity of Sri Krishna. But questions have constantly haunted their consciousness as to whether Sri Krishna was a historical character or a mythical one and whether the history of India and the story of Krishna and the Pandavas, as told in the Mahabharata, (one of the two major ...
Krishna was a real person (if he is god ,that depends upon your belief . Personally I believe he is swayam bhagwan). The cult of Sri Krishna was immensely popular during Alexander's invasion. Even the soldiers of Porus carried his image.
According to Guy Beck, "most scholars of Hinduism and Indian history accept the historicity of Krishna – that he was a real male person, whether human or divine, who lived on Indian soil by at least 1000 BCE and interacted with many other historical persons within the cycles of the epic and puranic histories."
May 28, 2018 · For thousands of years, the people of India have believed in the divinity of Sri Krishna. But questions have constantly haunted their consciousness as to whether Sri Krishna was a historical character or a mythical one and whether the history of India and the story of Krishna and the Pandavas, as told in the Mahabharata, (one of the two major ...
- Vanamali Mataji
Oct 22, 2024 · Krishna’s personality is clearly a composite one, though the different elements are not easily separated. Vasudeva-Krishna was deified by the 5th century bce. The cowherd Krishna was probably the god of a pastoral community.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 22, 2016 · The traditional assumption in India has been basically ahistoric: that Krishna was a real person, but that he lives primarily through the telling of his story (i.e., what the ancient Greeks would have called ἱστορία historía) and in his mystical apparition to Hindu believers. The Western conception of "scientifically verifiable ...
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Dec 11, 2023 · In the Bhagavata Purana, Krishna is referred to as svayam bhagavan, or as God Himself. And in the Brahma-samhita, Krishna is addressed as the Supreme Controller and as the original cause of all things. Often when we think of God, we think of who He is in relation to us and our world.
