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'''''Krishnavatara''''' ({{langx|hi|कृष्णावतार}}) is a series of seven novels written by [[K.M. Munshi]]. A projected eighth novel was not completed. The series is based on life of Lord [[Krishna]] and the epic [[Mahabharata]] series.

== Books ==
* Krishnavatara I: ''The Magic Flute''<ref>{{cite book|title=Krishnavatra (Complete series)|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan}}</ref>
* Krishnavatara II: ''The Wrath of an Emperor''
* Krishnavatara III: ''[[Pandavas|The Five Brothers]]''
* Krishnavatara IV: ''The Book of [[Bhima]]''
* Krishnavatara V: ''The Book of [[Satyabhama]]''
* Krishnavatara VI: ''The Book of [[Vyasa|Vedavyaasa]] The Master''
* Krishnavatara VII: ''The Book of [[Yudhishthira]]''
* Krishnavatara VIII: ''The Book of [[Kurukshetra]] (incomplete)''

==Synopsis==
''Krishnavatara I: The Magic Flute'' opens with the marriage of [[Vasudeva|Vasudava]] and [[Devaki]], sister of [[Kamsa]] and daughter of [[Ugrasena]]. Sage Narada prophesied to Kamsa that eighth the child of Devaki would kill him. He imprisons Devaki and Vasudava. Kamsa kill killed six children of [[Devaki]]. Gargacharya and [[Akrura]] rescue the last two children, [[Balarama]] and [[Krishna]], from Kamsa and gives them to [[Nanda (mythology)|Nanda]]. Warned by the gods, Kamsa sends [[Putana]] to kill Krishna but Putana fails. Krishna kills Trinavarta and uproots Arjuna trees. Krishna survives an encounter with [[Kaliya]] and holds [[Govardhan Hill|Gowardhan]] to save Vrindavana. When Kamsa learns about Krishna's miracles, he sends Akrura to take Krishna to [[Mathura]]. Krishna and [[Balarama]] go to mathura and kill Kamsa.

''Krishnavatara II: The Wrath of an Emperor'' is based on [[Harivamsa]]. The book opens with the coronation of Ugrasena. Krishna and Balarama travel to [[Sandipani]] [[ashram]]. Sandipani's son Punardatt is abducted by Punyajaya so Krishna and [[Uddhava|Udhhava]] kill Punyajava to support Punardatt. Punardatt was in Vaivastapuri (land of death), but Krishna saves him. After they complete their education Krishna and Balarama return to Mathura. Soon [[Yadava|Yadavas]] get news that Kamsa's father-in-law [[Jarasandha]] will attack Mathura. Krishna escapes with Balarama to save Yadavas. They come to Mount Gomantaka, but Jarasandha arrives there and set Gomantaka on fire. Krishna and Balarama fight and defeat Jarasandha. Krishna also kills Shrigalava and defeats Karavirapura. Jarasandha adopts a new strategy to marry [[Rukmini]] to [[Shishupala|Shisupala]] by arranging false [[Swayamvara]]. Krishna and his army of Yadavas travel to Kundinpura claiming to pay homage to Rukmini's grandfather Kaisika. Jarasandha postpones Swayamvara because of Krishna. Krishna learns that [[Kalayavana]] plans to attack Mathura. Krishna and the Yadavas leave Mathura for Dwarka. Krishna meets Kalayavana and misleads him, [[muchukunda|Mmuchukunda]] then burns Kalayavana. Krishna returns to Kundinpura and abducts and marries Rukmini.

''Krishnavatara III: The Five Brothers'' is based on the Mahabharata story of [[Pandava|Pandavas]] who escapes from [[Lakshagraha|Varanavata]] and the evil plan of Duryodhana. [[Satyavati]] asks Krishna to find her great grandson [[Pandava|Pandavas]]. Krishna finds him in Rakshavarta with the help of Udhhava and Nagas. Pandavas marries [[Draupadi]].

''Krishnavatara IV: The Book of Bhima'' deals with Bhima who falls in love with Jaladhara, sister of Duryodhana's wife [[Bhanumati (Mahabharata)|Bhanumati]], who died delivering a son. Yudhisthira shares his Kingdom with Duryodhana, angering Bhima. Krishna convinces Bhima to leave [[Hastinapur]]. Pandavas with help of Krishna and other Yadavas builds a new city [[Indraprastha]].

''Krishnavatara V: The Book of Satyabhama'' narrates the story of [[Syamantaka]], jewel of Satrajit. Satrajit Yadava was against Krishna so he gives up Syamantaka to Prasanajita and claims Krishna tried to steal it. Krishna with the help of [[Satyabhama]] and [[Satyaki]] find Syamantaka in bear-world. Krishna marries [[Jambavati]] and escapes from bear-world. [[Satyabhama]] gives Syamantaka to Prasanajita and marries Krishna.

''Krishnavatara VI: Book of vedavyaasa the master'' starts when sage [[Parashara]] takes his son Krishna ([[Vyasa]]) by fishergirl Matsyagandha. Parashara wants to rebuild Dharmakshetra ashram, but Parashara is killed by wolves. When Krishna ([[Vyasa|Dwaipayana]]) wants to re-establish ashram, Rakshasas attack on him but save by [[Jabali]]. Krishna went to Hastinapur to meet king [[Shantanu]] to re-establish the glory of Dharmakshetra. In Hastinapur, Krishna discovers his mother as queen [[Satyavati]]. Krishna convinces [[Vibhuti]], [[Kshatriya|Shotriya]] of Hastinapur to join [[Vajapeya]] Yagna. Dharmakshetra is re-established. Many years later Vyasa and wife Vatika, daughter of [[Jabali]], have son [[Shuka|Suka]]. Suka is caught by Mocca, but Vyasa frees him. Vyasa also performs [[Niyoga]] to save Kuru lineage.

''Krishnavatara VII: Book of Yudhisthira'' deals with Yudhisthira who wants to perform Rajayusa Yagna. He asks Krishna for help. Krishna, Arjuna and Bhima go to Magadha. Bhima kills [[Jarasandha]] and establishes [[Sahadeva|Sahdeva]] as king. During Rajasuya, Bhishma suggests Agrapooja to Krishna. Shisupala cannot bear it and tries to kill Krishna, but Krishna beheads him. Vyasa tells [[Yudhishthira|Yudhisthira]] that he has become the centre of the great war, so Yudhisthira becomes worried and accepts Duryodhana's invitation to play dice. In the game he loses his wealth, brother, wife and himself. Dushasana tries to unwrap Draupadi, but is saved by Krishna. In the last game Yudhisthira loses again and is exiled for 12 years.

''Krishnavatara VIII: Book of kurukshetra'' starts with the news that Krishna's father vasudava has been taken by Salwa of Saubha, so he sent his son Pradhyumna to deal with Salwa. Salwa's minister Vajranabhi imprisoned Pradhyumna by order of Salwa and Vajranabhi married his daughter Prabhavati to [[Pradyumna|Pradhyumna]]. At the time Mayavati came to help him escape Salwa.

== Preface ==
{{cquote|[[Krishna]] literature has grown since it first took definite shape in ''[[Mahabharata]]'', then in ''Harivamsha'' and ''[[Vishnu Purana]]'', and was elaborated in ''[[Shrimad Bhagavata]]'' and other [[Puranas]]. To this literature in [[Sanskrit]] has been added other literature, for the story of his life has been told in epic, song and story by thousands of poets in every Indian language for centuries. In the course of being so told, Shri [[Krishna]] has come to be invested with traits and credited with exploits of such divergent nature that it becomes difficult, if not impossible, for a reader to have a clear picture of the [[Krishna]] as he was known by his contemporaries.

In making this attempt to divest his personality of later accretions, Munshi has sifted the available Krishna literature in Sanskrit to find the Krishna as he ''must'' have lived. Then, with the aid of his creative imagination, he has woven the essential events of his life with romance, to present in this work, Shri Krishna at once as a man, a superman and God. What was, according to ''Bhagavata'', the story of God who had come to the world as a man, has become, in Munshiji's hands, the fascinating story of a man who became God.
|Preface<ref>{{cite book|title=Krishnavatara (Vol. I) - The Magic Flute|date=December 1962|edition=First|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan}}</ref>}}

==References==
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