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Yashoda Jayanti

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Yashoda Jayanti Tales are forever told of the epitome- that is Mother's love. A love so divine, so strong that nothing compares. An un-conditionality that is not found else where and that is the strength of a Mother. She who loves her child irrespective of the world around, for whom there is nothing more perfect than her little one. She can nurture as well as ferociously growl at any adversary that may come towards her child, such is the love of a Mother. One such Mother of legend is Yashoda.  Significance Yashoda is the foster-mother to Lord Krishna and wife of Nanda in the Puranic texts of Hinduism. Within the Bhagavata Purana, it is described that Krishna who was born to Devaki, was given to Yashoda and Nanda in Gokul exchanging her daughter Subhadra by Krishna's father Vasudeva on the night of his birth, for his protection from Devaki's brother, Kansa, the king of Mathura. According to Devi Bhagwat Purana, Kansa, the ruler of Mathura had decided to