Krishnavatar - Timeline

Birth

§  Appearance at midnight of Sravana  (July 19/20) to Devaki.

§  Taken by Vasudeva from Mathura to Nanda and Yasoda in Gokula.

Till 3 Years of age

§  Lived in Gokula.

§  Slaying of Putana, Sakatasura and Trinivarta.

3 – 6 Years of age

§  Moved to Vrindavana.

§  Slaying of Bakasura, Aghasura and Dhenuka.

§  Balarama slays Pralamba.

§  Moved to Nandagrama.

7-10 Years of age

§  Brahma steals and returns cowherd boys.

§  Govardhana Puja.

§  Rasa-lila with the gopis.

§  Invited to Mathura for wrestling match.

§  Krishna slays Canura while Balarama slays Mustika.

§  Krishna slays Kamsa and Balarama killed Kamsa’s brothers.

10-28 Years of age

§  Lived in Mathura.

§  Initiated along with Balarama into chanting Gayatri by Gargamuni.

§  Gurukul with Balarama and Uddhava in the sixty four arts by Sandipani Muni.

§  Protects Mathura from many demons.

29 – 125 Years of age

§  Establishes Dwaraka city.

§  Marriage to Rukmini and 7 principal queens.

§  Marriage to 16,100 princesses.

§  1,61,080 children born to Krishna.

§  Destined death of Sisubala at the hands of Krishna in the Indraprastha city.

§ Saves Draupathi in the Cheer Haran attempted on her, in front of the Pandavas, the Kauravas and the mighty souls.

§  Lord Krishna leaves from Upaplavya to Hastinapur, for peace talk.

§  Warns King Dhridharashtra and shows him about the war and death of his sons.

§  Lunar eclipse, after the failure of peace talk.

§  The war begins.

§ Bhagavad-Gita at Kurukshetra Battle (~90).

§  Saves King Pariksit in the womb.

125 Years of age

§  King Yudhistra’s Aswamedha Yaga and the Mongoose.

§  Yadava race extinction, in his very own hands.

§  Wounded by mistake, by a hunter named Jara.

§  Recites Uddhava Gita to Uddhava.

§  Breathed his last day of Krishnavatar on February 18.

Lord Sri Krishna lived on this earth for 125 years, 8 months and 7 days.

Sage Vyasa composed the epic Mahabharata around 3000 BC.