Nanda (Hinduism)

Nanda or Nandagopa is a cow-herd chief, and the foster-father of <a href="/facts/Krishna/oQVtX5MI">Krishna</a>, featured in the <a href="/facts/Harivamsa/Wmr4hNF0">Harivamsha</a> and the <a href="/facts/Puranas/AQ7FeRsA">Puranas</a>. Nanda is the son of <a href="/facts/Parjanya_Maharaja/4Mqx0eB9">Parjanya</a>, a ruler of the <a href="/facts/Braj/0jkSpP6k">Vraja</a> region, who is a son of Devamidha. He is the chief of <a href="/facts/Gokul/raFExHzj">Gokulam</a>, which was one of the mandals of the yadava tribe. He is sometimes referred to as a king but was a cow-herder in real.
Nanda was a brother of <a href="/facts/Vasudeva/54W46Vax">Vasudeva</a>. Vasudeva takes his newborn son, Krishna, to Nanda on the night of the child's birth, so that Nanda could raise him and to protect new born <a href="/facts/Krishna/oQVtX5MI">Krishna</a> from his maternal uncle <a href="/facts/Kamsa/HLeJNxuu">Kamsa</a>. The chief, who is married to <a href="/facts/Yashoda/8mvt60u5">Yashoda</a>, brings up both Krishna, and his brother, <a href="/facts/Balarama/bBexbMv5">Balarama</a>. Krishna derives his epithet Nandanandana (son of Nanda) from him.

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