16 Facts About Krishna

1. Lord Krishna was lucky enough to be a husband of 16,108 wives.

2. Lord Krishna is always pictured as blue skinned with a peacock feather in his crown.

3. Lord Krishna granted Eklavya a boon after he sacrificed his thumb to Dronacharya.

4. Lord Krishna once preached against the orthodox form of worship of the Vedic Gods like Indra.

5. Sri Krishna had once advised Arjuna to abduct his sister Subhadra and take her away.

6. Lord Krishna had 80 sons and was the cousin of Ekalavya too, whose father Devashrava was actually the brother of Vasudeva.

7. Lord Krishna is actually related to the Pandavas from the maternal side.

8. Lord Krishna is one of the most popular Avatars of Lord Vishnu.

9. Shri Krishna had a total of 16,108 wives, of which only eight were his princely wives, known as Ashtabharya,or patrani.

10. Shri Krishna is most famous and perhaps the most written about among the incarnations of Lord Vishnu.

11. In 2017, Krishna had quit the grand old opposition party and joined the saffron party.

12. The day of birth of Krishna is celebrated as Krishna Janmashtami.

13. Since the 1960s, the worship of Krishna has spread to the Western world and to Africa, largely due to the work of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

14. Story of Krishna occurs in the Jataka tales in Buddhism.

15. In other Jain texts, Krishna is stated to be a cousin of the twenty-second Tirthankara, Neminatha.

16. The most elaborate temple arts of Krishna are found in a series of Krsnayana reliefs in the Prambanan Hindu temple complex near Yogyakarta.