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# Matsyapurana 47.6

Matsyapurāṇa 47.6

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [47.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.47.6)

dattvainaṃ nandagopasya rakṣyatāmiti cābravīt  
atastu sarvakalyāṇaṃ yādavānāṃ bhaviṣyati  
ayaṃ tu garbho devakyāṃ jātaḥ kaṃsaṃ haniṣyati //

> In compliance with those words of Vasudeva, Lord Kṛiṣṇa hid His form of Divine glory and asked Him to send him to the house of Nanda. Accordingly, Vasudeva took him to the house of Nanda, and requested the latter to look after the Divine babe, like his own child, and added that the celestial infant would bring prosperity to the Yâdavas; and this child, born of the womb of Devakî, will kill Kaṃsa.—5-6.  
> — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Matsya Puranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-taluqdar.47.p2) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.47.6) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (3)

- [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.1.13.140) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Liṅgapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.linga.1.69.55) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Liṅgapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.tamil.kappiyam.lingapurana.78.55) — Ativīrarāma Pāṇṭiyar 1500, Sanskrit

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