DEVAKI

DEVAKI Blessed are you, O mother Devaki, in whose house there is Lord Kavalapati (Vishnu). (Mali Gaura Namdev, p. 988) She was the daughter of Devaka and wife of Vasudev. The tyrant king Kansa was her cousin. Balarama was her seventh child and Krishna the eighth. Devaki was in prison, when Krishna was bom. Krishna was miraculously tåken to the house of the cowherd Nanda and exchanged with his daughter. He was brought up there. See : Krishna , Kansa , Nanda , Jasoda , Balarama

References :

1. Kohli, Surindar Singh (ed), Dictionary of Mythological References in Guru Granth Sahib, 1993