the story of Narakashura and a different insight

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I hope you will read this and will give me your precious opinions!


do you think the ten avatarm or ten incarnations of vishnudev told in poorans is absolute and ordered chronologically? and more importantly the story of varah and bhu devi is related to the story of narakashura according to bhagabata pooran, and thus it is somehow related with the story of krishna's so called 16000 wives , all of whose are told to be the daughters of narak!

according to poorans the story of narakasura goes in the way-----

once narakasura became very powerful due to boons from mahadev and later on brahma ji. he managed to overpower devas and snatched the ear-ring of devmata aditi and brought it to his kingdom, pragyotish (present kamarupa). devraj could not make a way to bring it back and he along with devas went to dwarika (an island state where krishna and other yadavs resided) and complained of him to Krishna! Lord krishna decided to do something to preserve the honor of the devas and he attacked naraka's kingdom along with his wife satyabhaama. with the help of his wife, krishna was successful in killing the demon and recover the jewelry when the earth Goddess appeared before him and returned it to him. The earth Goddess told him that when he took the form of Varah to lift the world above the water(!) with its horn, then with his touch the bhoomi became pregnant and gave birth to Naraka(!).

this was the story so far according to vagabata. but there is something more horrible in brahmabaibart puran. it says

krishna conquered pragyotish and captured all the women of the kingdom. he took all the daughters of naraka, 16000 written. and married them when he took all of them somewhere underground.
now from vishnu puran

I don't know much...but if ur stories of narakashura are true then it seems very confusing...i have to research to get some satisfactory conclusion

Legends behind Narak Chaturdasi

Birth of Narakasura

Lord Vishnu in his incarnation as Varaha a boar rescued Mother Earth, Bhoomidevi from the demon Hiranyaksha and killed him. Born from Varaha and Bhoomidevi was Narakasura, who had invincible powers at his command.

Invasion of the three worlds

Narakasura was the king of Pragjothispura (a province to the south of Nepal). He was very powerful and demoniac in nature. He invaded the three worlds and took 16000 women in captivity. He took pleasure in inflicting torture to the beings of the three worlds through constant raiding and plunders. He imprisoned sages and devas too.

He attacked the heavens ruled by Indra to seize thousands of divine elephants in his army. He seized the glittering earrings of Mother Aditi Mother of all the Devas. Mother Aditi was the ruler of Suraloka and a relative of Sathyabama.

Lord Indra's seeks refuge in Krishna

Narakasura mercilessly killed the devas and being unable to bear the torture and shame inflicted by Narakasura, Indra sought the help of Krishna, to avenge his defeat.

Krishna and Sathyabama

Krishna with his wife Sathyabama (Bhoomidevi reborn) was enraged to hear the atrocities committed by Narakasura. Mother Earth or Bhoomidevi was reborn as Sathyabama in Dwaparayuga. She vowed to fight him to rescue the women in captivity, to secure the confiscated earrings of Mother Aditi and to relieve the Gods and sages held captive by the cruel asura.

Krishna fights Narakasura

Narakasura was under the spell of a curse to meet his death at the hands of a woman. All knowing Krishna took Sathyabama along with him to fight the battle with Narakasura on his mount Garuda. Krishna was the charioteer to Sathyabama in the fierce battle that ensued between Krishna and Narakasura.

Defeat of Mura

Narakasura's fort was impenetrable with a barrier of magical mountains. Unperturbed Krishna used his mace to destroy the mountains and headed to defeat him. The fortress was guarded by the five headed demon, Mura who attacked Krishna and his troops with countless weapons. All powerful Krishna defeated and killed Mura by hurling his chakra or discus, to gain entry into the fortress and hence he is called,Murari. It is believed that just by hearing and reading this divine story of Krishna of killing Mura, would help destroy all our problems by the power of his compassion and mercy.

Killing of Narakasura

In the war that followed, Sathyabama killed Narakasura as ordained by the divine will. She was the mother of Narakasura in the previous incarnation and destined to put an end to his life. However, some scriptures say that Krishna used his discus to kill Narakasura.

On the day of Narak Chaturdasi, Krishna returned to his palace and had a bath to cleanse himself of the blood stains and the sin of slaying the demon. Since then it has become the practice to take bath with scented oil before sunrise.

Mother Earth's Oath

Mother Earth or Bhoomidevi declared that the death of her son should be rejoiced as it is victory over evil. Narakasura before his last breath prayed to the mother that people should celebrate his death by lighting lamps all over and bursting firecrackers to rejoice the occasion. He repented for his innumerable sins committed against innocent people due to his dark ignorance.

Celebration of the death of the demon

Mother Bhoomidevi sang in praise of Krishna. Gods from heaven showered flowers and sang in glory of him. Devas and sages held in captivity were released. Mother Aditi's earrings were restored to her. The kingdom was brought under the control of Narakasura's son, Bhagdatta who pleaded for Krishna's protection. The 16000 damsels were set free. Everybody rejoiced the death of Narakasura. People rejoiced all over the country.

In another source I found,

1.From varaha and bhoomi devi, naraka was born

Lastly , the supernatural element of sons of krishna was allegorical...sometimes to keep something secret writer makes the content allegorical

Originally posted by: sanghita0000

1.From varaha and bhoomi devi, naraka was born

2.Naraka became king of pragjyotisha after defeating ghataka

3. Bhoomi devi took birth as sathyabama.Indra sought help from krishna, leading to the prophesy...

4.Narakasura was under the spell of a curse to meet his death at the hands of a woman. All knowing Krishna took Sathyabama along with him to fight the battle.

4.Bhagadutta must have defeated naraka nearly same period and then naraka was killed later, I guess😕...

5.later bhagadutta joined kauravas and was killed by arjun.his son vajradutta became king afterwards.

now no 1 does not solve the confusing matter as in veda, it has been told that projapati took the form of varaha to save the world; then how does the varah avatar of vishnu hold?
again if we consider narak to be born with varaha and bhoomi devi , it is the story of satya yuga; the killing of naraka took place in dwapar yuga; then narak lived for at least two whole yugas???
some things about mythologies are so confusing! people are taking births and rebirths as infinite forms; its very difficult to keep them on tracks! and so many stories to link the persons is various ways!