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Yadavas : descendants of Yadu. Yādava is used as an epithet of Krishna, who was born in the Yadu line. Under him the Yādavas established a kingdom at Dwārkā. The city was submerged by the ocean after Krishna withdrew from the body, & all the Yādavas who were present in the city perished. A few who were absent perpetuated the race, from which many princes & chiefs still claim their descent. [See Devagiri]

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... nations between Duryodhana and Yudhisthere. Personal relations like the matrimonial connections of Dhritarashtra's family with the Sindhus and Gandharas and of the Pandavas with the Matsyas, Panchalas & Yadavas doubtless counted for much, but there must have been something more; personal enmities [counted] for something as in the feud cherished by the Trigartas against Arjouna. The Madras disregarded matrimonial... the same cause. The Eastern nations, heirs of the Ixvaacou imperial idea, went equally solid for Yudhisthere. The Central peoples, repositories of the great Kuru Panchala tradition as well as the Yadavas, who were really a Central nation though they had trekked to the West, were divided. Now this distribution is exactly what we should have expected. The nations which are most averse to enter into an ...

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... sweet-smelling flowers. 41. When he had thus been shown the customary hospitality, Nanda addressed him thus: "O distinguished member of the Yadu clan! As long as cruel Karhsa is there, how do you Yadavas get on? Your life must necessarily be like that of sheep under the protection of a butcher. 42. What enquiry shall I make of the welfare of the subjects of a cruel king like Kamsa whose pleasure consists... unattainable to one on whom the Lord, the abode of Śrī , is gracious? But, O King, devotees crave for no benefits. 3. After supper, the Lord conversed with Akrūra on the condition of his clansmen, the Yadavas, under Kamsa, and about other matters concerning his mission. The Lord said: 4. O dear friend! I hope your journey was pleasant. Are all our kinsmen doing well? 5. When our reputed uncle, Kamsa ...

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... 161,175-200,204. 232,527 Xenophon: Cyropaedia, 55, 351, 465,467,483,484 Xerxes, 250,281, 325,331,333, 431,438 Yajnasri Satakarni, 519,584,585 Yajnavalkya, 20 Yadavas, 96 Yadu, 96 Yama, 143,582 Yasdagird, 29 Yāska (see also Nirukta), 130,256, 309-10 Yasodharman, 501-3,504,505, 508-16,600,606 Yaudheyas, 424,425 'Yauna',232,248,249 ...

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... will have no other choice but to leave the field alrogether to the Asuras, in whatever camp or form they are, to fight it out among themselves and finally destroy themselves in the act even like the Yadavas of old after Krishna's retirement. Some Asuras may pretend to be divine precisely to catch the voting strength, so to say, of the human being, who may still seem to have a prejudice or predilection ...

... A condition which one cannot retain by the inherent light and power of the Knowledge Will in it is not the supermind as I know it. Sri Krishna when asked by Arjuna after the destruction of the Yadavas to repeat the sacred lore of the Gita, replied that the teaching of the Gita came into him once but that it was no more and he could not repeat it. Can one who has attained to the supermind fall? ...

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... oppression was necessary that the people as a whole might be disposed to accept Nationalism, but Nationalism was not born of oppression. The oppressions and slaughters committed by Kansa upon the Yadavas did not give birth to Krishna but they were needed that the people of Mathura might look for the deliverer and accept him when he came. To hope that conciliation will kill Nationalism is to mistake ...

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... invention of the Greeks, but as in the older Aryan systems, was taken individually from each Councillor. The King was the final arbiter and responsible for the decision, except in nations like the Yadavas where he seems to have been little more than an ornamental head of an aristocratic polity. Finally, the Commons in the Mahabharata are not represented by any assembly, because the times are evidently ...

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... will have no other choice but to leave the field altogether to the Asuras, in whatever camp or form they are, to fight it out among themselves and finally destroy themselves in the act even like the Yadavas of old after Krishna's retirement. Some Asuras may like to pre­tend to be divine precisely to "catch" the voting strength, so to say, of the human being who may still seem to have a prejudice or p ...

... s of his unseeing carelessness and his negligent ignorance. "For whatsoever I have spoken to thee in rash vehemence, thinking of thee only as my human friend and companion, 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O comrade,' not knowing this thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to thee in jest, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in... treatment of this Divine as the mere outward man, his seeing of only the mental and physical relation seems to him a sin against the Mightiness that was there. For the being whom he called Krishna, Yadava, comrade, was this immeasurable Greatness, this incomparable Might, this Spirit one in all of whom all are the creations. That and not the veiling outward humanity, avajānan mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Essays on the Gita

... in the terrestrial play, the play working itself out in the *"For whatsoever I have spoken to thee in rash vehemence, thinking of thee only as a human friend and companion, 'O, Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade,' not knowing this thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to thee in jest, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in ...

... matva prasabham yaduktam he Krsna he yadava he sakheti ajanata mahimanam tavedam maya pramadat pranayena vapi. yaccavahasartham asatkrto'si viharasayyasanabhojanesu eko'thavapyacyuta tatsamaksam tatksamaye tvamahamaprameyam "By whatever name I have called you, O Krishna, O Yadava, O Friend, thinking in my rashness that you were ...

... receiving on the 1. The Exodus is supposed to have begun in 1447 B.C., which would make Moses a contemporary of Sri Krishna. And peculiarly enough, just when Krishna led the exodus of his Yadava tribe from Mathura to Dwaraka, seemingly Moses did the same with the Jews in the Middle East. Page 98 way the Ten Commandments on top of Mount Sinai —"And to think Moses climbed up there ...

... obliging to the one who is his favourite, who loves him unreservedly, who identifies himself with him,—as in oneness of sunshine with the sun. Arjuna would address him in endearing terms as “O Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade;” he would speak to him in jest and be informal  “at party, on the couch, and the seat and the banquet.” Now he makes himself bold and asks him to show him his universal Form. No doubt he ...

... Arjuna's state of mind in his own words — as stated in the Gita: "For whatsoever I have spoken to Thee in rash vehemence, thinking of Thee only as my human friend and companion, '0 Krishna, 0 Yadava, 0 Comrade,' not knowing this Thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to Thee in jest, at play, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone ...

... Arjuna's state of mind in his own words – as stated in the Gita:   For whatsoever I have spoken to Thee in rash vehemence, thinking of Thee only as my human friend and companion, 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade,' not knowing this Thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to Thee in jest, at play, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone ...

... Vision of the World-Spirit", Essays on the Gita (1966), 375]: For whatsoever I have spoken to thee in rash vehemence, thinking of thee only as my human friend and companion, 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O comrade,' not knowing this thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to thee in jest, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in ...

... rthamasatkrtosi vihāra-śayyāsana- bhojanesu eko'thavāpyacyuta tvat-samaksam tat ksāmaye tvām-aham-aprameyam "By whatever name I have called you, O Krishna, O Yadava, O Friend, thinking in my rashness that you were only a friend, and out of ignorance and from affection, not knowing this thy greatness; whatever disrespect I have shown you out of frivolity, whether ...

... Ma nu, 89 Marx, Karl , 200 materialism, 1,61 ,77-78, 80,85,92, 114 , 140 , 197 ,201 mathematic s, 168 matter , field o f Sri Aurobindo's Yoga , 189, 193, 194 Maurya, the dynasty, 178 Ma Yadava , 183 Mazzini, 57,93 medic a l science, 102-1 03 Me so potamia , 137 Minto , Earl , 47 (fn) see also Morley-Minto re forms Miller, P. (Pramatha Mitra), 13 moderation, Moderatism, 89 , 93, 118 ...

... immeasurable in strength of action, Thou pervadest all and art everyone. For whatsoever I have spoken to Thee in rash vehemence, thinking of Thee only as my human friend and companion, 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade', not knowing this Thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to Thee in jest, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in ...

... his Grace: It was the Mother who opened our eyes and gave us that vision which made us say, even as Arjuna had been made to say: "By whatever name I have called you, O Krishna, O Yadava, O Friend, thinking in my rashness that you were only a friend, and out of ignorance and from affection, not knowing this thy greatness; whatever disrespect I have shown you out of frivolity, whether ...

... accurately the chronological position of Krishna is perfectly clear, and we have already explained how even the mistake of 15 generations can rest on a specific traditional point connected with the Yadava family to which Krishna belonged. The liaison between Megasthenes's starting-point and the Purānic Maghā, which from 3177 B.C. starts the century holding those traditional dates, has a most ...