Figure South Asian traditions
Vasudeva
वसुदेवः sa वसुदेव hi வசுதேவர் ta
Father of Hindu deity Krishna
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Vasudeva
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 8
Kinship in an account 5
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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parent of (father) Krishna major deity in Hinduism, worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the Supreme god in his own right - parent of (child) Subhadrā character from Indian epic Mahabharata
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partner of (spouse) Devakī Mother of Lord Krishna -
partner of (spouse) Rohini wife of Vasudeva and mother of Balarama in Hindu mythology - sibling of Samudravijaya king
Family 3
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
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Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Sources
Sources and evidence
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6 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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