Devaki

The demigods and great saintly persons showered flowers in a joyous mood, and clouds gathered in the sky and very mildly thundered, making sounds like those of the ocean’s waves. Then the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, who is…

Thereafter, all the watchmen very quickly approached King Kaṁsa, the ruler of the Bhoja dynasty, and submitted the news of the birth of Devakī’s child. Kaṁsa, who had awaited this news very anxiously, immediately took action.

My dear Śukadeva Gosvāmī, you have already explained that Saṅkarṣaṇa, who belongs to the second quadruple, appeared as the son of Rohiṇī named Balarāma. If Balarāma was not transferred from one body to another, how is it possible that He…

Description of Kamsa killing Devaki's first son. Vyasa said: Then, as time passed, the divine-formed Devaki, united with Vasudeva according to rites, conceived a child.

(Yogamaya's words to Kamsa) Vyasa said: When the six sons of Devaki had been killed by the son of Ugrasena (Kamsa), and the seventh embryo had miscarried (been transferred), according to the words of Narada...

What offense did he commit along with his wife Devaki? And why were the six children of Devaki destroyed?

By bathing at Prabhāsa when the Sun is in Makara (Capricorn), one becomes a member of Rudra’s hosts. And by bathing at Devakī, a man—though possessing a divine body—becomes (merely) human due to the influence of the month of Māgha.

Devakī, Śrutadevī, Yaśodā, and Śrutiśravā; also Śrīdevī, Upadevī, and Surūpā—these are the seven (women), the seventh group.

Rukmiṇī abides in Dvāravatī, and likewise Rādhā in Vṛndāvana; Devakī dwells in Mathurā, and in Pātāla the Supreme Goddess (Parameśvarī) abides.

But if you still desire to give it up (your life), then listen even there to this word: within a very short time, from Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī, (the matter will be resolved).

Establish it with unwavering devotion, always for the welfare of the people. In the nakṣatra presided over by the Viśvedevas, perform the confluence-rite at Devakī’s meeting-place.

When the earth-world was being harassed and people were even being devoured, the One born from Devakī’s womb manifested for the purpose of relieving the Earth’s burden.