Krishna Lineage

Yadorvansham narah shrutva sarvapapeh pramuchyateYatravatirnam krshnakhyam parambrahma nirakriti !!(Vishnu Puran,4th Cantos,11th chapter,4th sloka)
Yadu, the eldest son of Yayáti, in which the eternal immutable Vishńu descended upon earth in a portion of his essence ; of which the glory cannot be described, though for ever hymned in order to confer the fruit of all their wishes--whether they desired virtue, wealth, pleasure, or liberation--upon all created beings, upon men, saints, heavenly quiristers, spirits of evil, nymphs, centaurs, serpents, birds, demons, gods, sages, Brahmans, and ascetics. Whoever hears the account of the race of Yadu shall be released from all sin; for the supreme spirit, that is without form, and which is called Vishńu, was manifested in this family.Yadavas are the celebrated race in which the supreme being Lord Krishna was born.According to Vishnu-Puran,there were seven 'manas -putra' of Lord Brahma.Atri,Marichi,vashishta,Angiras,Pulhu,Pulatsya,Kratu.(Manu was born from the left thumb of Brahma).These seven sages are the founder of Gotras.Yadava race belongs to Atri gotra.ATRIAtri's wife was Anusuya.They both were enlightened gods.In a test taken by the trinity (Brahma,Vishnu,mahesh)about the Anusuya's chastity,She greatly impressed the trinity .They were so pleased that they granted her a boon and accepted to take birth as her children named Soma,Duttatreya and Durvasha.SOMAAs Puran states,Lord Soma was the first god who owned all the arts and skills(like krishna).Soma, is the monarch of the stars and planets,of sacrifices and of penance.He was the founder of Somvansha ,which rulers ruled the earth for thousands and thousands of years and influenced the humanity immensly.Lord Soma is the god of the moon,the plants and all the nakshtras.He constructed the most famous temple of hindus which is known as Somnath temple.In the Vedas, Soma is referred to as an intoxicating and divine drink,drink of gods. Soma Sacrifice was a common ritual during the Vedic period. It was the soul of the Yajna. Almost one hundred hymns, in the Rig Veda, are dedicated to Soma.In Samveda ,which is the most sacred veda ,as Lord Krishna also announced.."I am Samveda myself,amongst the vedas.",contains lots of hymns to honour the Somadeva.. Even Lord Shiva wears the moon on his head ,which is the symbol of Lord soma.TAVA VRATE SOMA TISHTHANTU KRISHTAYah !(957,Samaveda)O Soma! May humans adhere by your rules.In this richa Somadev has been prayed that the whole of mankind adheres to His rule,that nobody commits a mistake of going against the natuaral law. Here stress has been given upon the virtues of a disciplined life. Anarchy prevails when law is transgressed. On the contrary, peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.(66) SANAA JYOTIH SANAA SWAR VISHWAA CHA SOMA SAUBHAGAAATHAA NO VASYA SASKRIDHI----------(1048 Samaveda)Bless us with radiance! Give us happiness and good-fortune...bless us with benediction.Here Somadev has been prayed to bless us with such capabilities which helps a man to achieve success, prosperity and his own benediction. One,who tries to imbibe the qualities of gods and brings them into practice, they are automatically blessed with radiance and good-fortune.Lord Soma and TaraTara was an astral goddess,a pole star.She was the wife of Brihaspati.Soma seduced Tara and eloped with her.This caused a great uproar ,the gods rallied against Soma .Thus began the great war between the Gods and Lord Soma,which is known as Tarka war. It is also called Devasur sangram. The gods fought on Brihaspati’s side and the demons aided Soma. Shiva also fought on the side of the gods. As the war raged, Shiva let fly a terrible divine weapon named brahmashirsha at Soma.Soma countered this with another terrible divine weapon named somastra. These two weapons of destruction threatened to burn up the entire universe. Brahma decided that it was time for him to intervene . Somehow he was successful to make Soma understand that it is against dharma and Tara should go to Brihaspati . When Tara returned to Brihaspati she was pregnant with Soma child.Later,she gave birth to a boy child named Budha.BudhaIn Hindu mythology, Budha is the name for the planet Mercury, a son of Lord Soma with Tara or Rohini. He is also the god of merchandise and protector of Merchants.He is represented as being mild, eloquent, and of greenish color. He is represented holding a scimitar, a club and a shield, riding a winged lion in Ramghur temple. In other illustrations, he holds a sceptre and lotus and rides a carpet or an eagle or a chariot drawn by lions.Budha presides over 'Budhavara' or Wednesday. In India,Wednesday is called Budhavara.Budha married Ila, the daughter Manu and fathered a son Pururava.PururavaPururavas ,According Vedas, is a mythological entity associated with the Surya (the sun) and Usha (the dawn), and is believed to resided in the middle region of the cosmos. The Rig Veda states that he was a son of Ila, and was a pious king. However, the Mahabharata states that Ila was both his mother and his father. According to the Vishnu Purana, his father was Budha, and he was ancestor of the tribe of Pururavas, from whom descended the Kauravas and Pandavas.Pururva married an apsara Urvashi.She gave birth to Ayu.AyuAyu: Pururuva's and Urvashi son.King Ayu married King Sarvbhanu's (Rahu) daughter Prabha. Yuvraj Nahush wastheir eldest son. Kshtravardh, Rambh, Rajji and Adena were their other four sons. Asmentioned before, King Ayu established the city of Mathura on the banks of YamunaRiver. In times to come, Prayag was considered to be the Yadav's mainland andMathura was the capital for many generations during their rule. The Tartars from Mid-Asia considered Ayu to be their forefather. In their local language "Ayu" wasconsidered plural of Chandrama (moon) and was considered a symbolic representationof god. Tartar's "Ayu", Chineese "Yu" and Puranas' "Ayu" are all synonyms of Indu orSoma(moon).NahushaNahusha was the son of Ayu, and father of Yayati.According to Manu ,"By sacrifices, austere fervour, sacred study, self-restraint, and valour, Nahusha acquired the undisturbed sovereignty of the three worlds.. Through want of virtuous humility the great king Nahusha was utterly ruined".
He became the ruler of The Indraloka .But intoxicated by the opulence of his great powers ,he became vain and arrogant.A thousand great Rishis bore the palanquin of Nahusha, and on one occasion he touched with his foot the great Agastya, who carrying him. The sage in his anger cried out, "Fall, thou serpent," and Nahusha fell from his glorious car and became a serpent. Interestingly, Nahash is the biblical Hebrew word for serpent.Agastya, at the supplication of Nahusha, put a limit to the curse; and according to one version, the doomed man was released from it by the instrumentality Yudhisthira, when he threw off "his huge reptile form, became clothed in a celestial body, and ascended to heaven."YayatiYayati was the son of king Nahusha. He was a great scholar of Vedas. He had five brothers, Yati,Samyati, Ayati,Viyati, and Kriti. He had two wives, Devyani and Sharmishtha. Devyani was the daughter of Shukracharya,the priest of Asuras (the demons). Sharmishtha was the daughter of the Demon King Vrishparva. Sharmishtha was a friend and servant of Devyani.One day as Devyani and Sharmishtha along with the hoard of servants were amusing themselves in a park, King Yayati happened to pass by. Devyani had been secretly in love with Yayati as he had once rescued her from a dry well. Devyani and Sharmishtha introduced themselves to him and Devyani confessed to being in love with him and asked him to marry her. Yayati said, "Unless your father gives you to me in marriage I will not accept you as my wife." Shukracharya gave in to his daughter's request and agreed to give her away in marriage to King Yayati. As dowry he gave away Sharmishtha. He however warned Yayati that he should never let Sharmishtha share his bed. Sharmishtha was given a place to live in a shaded glade called Ashok Vatika. One day Yayati happened to pass by Ashok Vatika where Sharmishtha lived. Seeing him, Sharmishtha confessed that she too was in love with the king and wanted him to marry her. She told him that she belonged to a royal family and Yayati could marry her. Yayti agreed and they wed in secret. They continued to meet and hid the fact from Devyani that they were married.Yayati got two sons from Devyani – 1. Yadu and 2. Turvasu.Yayati also got three sons from Sharmishtha – 1. Druhyu 2. Anu and 3. Puru.When Devyani came to know about the relationship of Yayati and Sharmishtha and their three sons she felt shocked and betrayed. Devyani went away to her father's house. Shukracharya was displeased with the king, and cursed that he would lose his youth and become an old man immediately. As soon as Shukracharya uttered his curse Yayati became an old man. Shukracharya also said that his curse once uttered could not be taken back and added that the only concession he could give was that if Yayati wanted he could give his old age to someone and take their youth from them. Yayati was relieved at the reprieve he was given and confident that his sons would willingly exchange their youth with him. Yayati went back to his kingdom. Yayati requested all his five sons one by one to give their youth to him to enjoy the worldly happiness. All the sons except Puru rejected his demand. So Yayati took the youth of Puru and enjoyed all the subjects. Puru became the successor of king Yayati.
Note: King Bharata,On whose name ,our country is known as Bharatvarsha, was also a Somvanshi.
YaduYadu ,the name of one of the five Aryan clans mentioned in the Rig Veda.The epic Mahabharata and Puranas refer to Yadu as the eldest son of mythological king Yayati.Yadu was banished from ruling and had become rebel who first started ruling in outskirts of India and then intruded the mainland.The Jambudvipa referred in scriptures is believed to be in memory of these islands.The regions where the Yadu clan settled is not certain, but certain scholars suggest that Yadu clan inherited the territories to the south-west of the Gangetic plains between the Chambal River Betwa and Ken, which correspond to the border areas of present Indian states of Haryana,Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In Hindu mythology, the descendants of Yadu tribe (Yaduvanshi) include Krishna.Several castes and communities in modern India, such as the Yadavs and the Yaduvanshis descent from Yadu.The names below,are the important yadava kings named in our mythological texts and history.King KroshtaAfter King Yadu, his second son, prince Kroshta acquired the kingdom and becamethe first Yaduvanshi ruler. His generations became to be known as "Kroshta Yadav" .King Vrajnivan or VrajpitaKing SwahiKing after KroshtaKing Ushnak ( a.k.a Roosdrig, Roosdrug, Unkas )King Chitrarath: King after UshnakKing SashibinduKing BhojKing PrithushravaKing DhamraaKing UshnaKing RuchakKing JyamaghKing VidharbKing KrathKing Kunti or KritiKing DhrishtiKing NivritiKing Darshah, whose generations were called as "Darshah Yadav".King VyomKing BhimKing JimutKing VikritiKing BhimrathKing NavrathKing DashrathKing ShakuniKing KaribhiKing DevratKing DevshtraKing MadhuKing Kumarvansh ( Kuruvashah)King Anu ( Anshu )King Puruhotra ( Purumitra )King SatvattaKing Vrashni (Lord Krishna was known as Varshneya too.)King DevmudhKing SursenKing VasudevBrother of Kunti, King Vasudev had two queens. Queen Rohini, mother of ShreeBalram and Queen Devki, mother of Lord Krishna. Queen Rohini was daugther ofKing Prateep and Sunanda. King Prateep, a Puruvanshi (King Kuru's dynasty) wasfrom Hastinapur.Shree Krishna
Lord Shri Krishna is regarded as complete incarnation of God., full of sixteen Kalas.
He had had 16,108 wives and 161,080 sons.According to sacred hindu texts,Devas were born in 32 Yadavas' branches in leadership of Vishnu(Lord Krishna) to destroy the Asuras,which were terryfing the earth.
Lord Krishna played the most important role in the greatest war called The Mahabharta.He preached the Geetha to his desciple Arjuna in the battlefield,which was later compiled as the Bhagwat Geeta ,and is the most sacred book of hinduism.
According to the Puranas ,the Magadha Empire was established by the Brihadratha Dynasty, who was the sixth in line from Emperor Kuru(a Somavanshi) of the Bharata dynasty through his eldest son Sudhanush. The first prominent Emperor of the Magadhan branch of Bharathas was Emperor Brihadratha. His son Jarasandha appears in popular legend and is slain by Bhima in the Mahabharatha. Vayu Purana mentions that the Brihadrathas ruled for 1000 years.
In medieval age...Rashtrakuta Vansh(King Krishna made Elepahnta caves' huge Shiva statue)and Vijaynagar Empire were Yadavas' kingdoms .
Note:Alha- Udal also belong to Kshtriya caste (Banaphar),which is a branch of lunar dynasty(Somavansha).
MythologyLord Krishna, was born in the dynasty of Yadu and was known as king of YadavasBalarama, Elder brother of Lord KrishnaNeminatha,The 22nd Teerthankar of Jains & cousin of KrishnaVasudeva,father of KrishnaKartavirya Arjuna(Emperor of Mahismati, also known as Shasrabahu)Kunti,sister of Vasudeva and mother of Pandavas and Karna.Kansa, a tyrannical king of Mathura, who was killed by KrishnaUgrasen, the father of Kansa .HistoricalKanakadasaVijayanagar empire,SriKrishnadevarayaYadava Dynasty (Deogiri now Daulatabad)Wodeyar Dynasty of Mysore, KarnatakaHoyasala Dynasty of KarnatakaKing Katamaraju (Andhra Pradesh)VeeraPandya Kattabomman (1857 Freedom Fighter-The Ideal King)Rao Balbir Singh (King of haryana)Jijabai (mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji)Rao Tula Ram(1857 freedom fighter)Pran Sukh Yadav(fought along with Rao Tula Ram Yadav at Nasibpur)Gene D. Metlock,is a retired high school foreign language teacher who spends his retirement researching the history and origins of mankind's religions, the origins of our Amerindian tribes, and related subjects, has also given various facts to support the myths associated with Yadavas.'When men began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them, the divine beings saw how beautiful the daughters of men were and took wives from among those that pleased them. The Lord said, My breath shall not abide in man forever, since he too is flesh; let the days allotted him be one hundred and twenty years. It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth--when the divine beings cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.' (Genesis, 6:1--4.)I quoute him : "Most people can't understand why this passage was placed in Genesis and who the Nephilim were. The Nephilim descended to earth to plant the seeds of God--Men who would, from time to time, reincarnate to lead mankind on the right path. Nephilim has its equivalent both in Sanskrit and Greek. In Sanskrit, 'Nau/Nu/Na=' ship; boat; knowledge; certainty; the descendancy from Noah or Lord Krishna; God Shiva; Buddha; Noah.' Navalin = Star Ship; Constellation Ship. In Greek, Nephilim= Nuphylum, meaning The Five Races (Phylum) of Noah (Nu). Of the five races, Yadu, Turvasa, Druhyus, Anu, and Puru, the only one IÕll deal with are the Yadu and their companions, the Yadavas. Yadava is a contraction of Yadu plus Deva, meaning 'The Yadu Demi--Gods or People of Yah.' It was through them that Lord Krishna, God Shiva, and Buddha came to earth to save mankind from time to time, as follows:Nephilim/Navalin > Noah (Manu) >Jyapeti (Japhet or Yayati) > Yadu > Yadava > Jews/Yahuda.Yayati/Jyapeti/Japhet was at one and the same time Dyauspitar (Jupiter), Dyus (Zeus), Vishnu or Lord Krishna, Shiva, and Buddha.Notice that the Nephilim/Navalin did not detach themselves from their bodies and move into those of the Yadus and Yadavas. They could enter this world only via the bloodstreams of the Yadu and Yadava (Yahudas or Jews). For that, they had to breed with the daughters of men, leaving their seed in the wombs of these daughters. The closer people were tied genetically to the Yadu and Yadava, the easier it was to get a correct genetic match for producing a fetus capable of hosting a true Son of the Unbegotten. Any of the other races could produce saints but not saviors like Jesus and Krishna. For this reason, Lord Krishna and Jesus were related by blood ties. Krishna was a Yadu Kuru. Jesus was a Yehudi Koresh.Could it be that the Hebrew and Hindu Gods, entering mankind's bloodstream through Japhet, the son of Noah, were really Gods? It seems that they were. We, whose religions descend from Noah's times, worshiping the same deities, accuse one another of being wrong and that we are right. We are all brothers. LetÕ's face it. What amazes me is that the Krishtayani, who were the people of Noah, and now the Christians, have never left the world scene.Before researching this information, I wondered why the Jews have always said they are 'The Chosen People.' That is because they, the Yadavas, and the Yadus were the only ones chosen by God to bring redemption to the world. Over the centuries, the Jews came to forget that they also shared that honor with the Indian Jyapeti, Yadus and Yadavas.In ancient times, these tribes were said to possess great mystical knowledge--more than any other peoples on earth. It may be true that those who were chosen for the priesthood had to perform some kind of test to prove they descended from the Divine Beings called Nephilim/Navalin. In Hebrews 7:3, we read a description of the mysterious figure Melchizedec whom I claim was Malika Sadhaka (Lord Krishna), the Incarnation of Vishnu."