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Excerpt from Folk-Lore, 1900, Vol. 11: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, and Custom To put the story as briefly as possible, we find a branch of the great Yadava clan of Kshatriyas, who probably owed their origin to a Yu-echi invasion from Central Asia, settled on the banks of the River Jumna, with Mathura as their capital. That they were outsiders or new-comers is impor tant when we come to consider certain elements in the cultus which indicate foreign influence. Krishna, we are told, was the son of Vasu-deva and Devaki. The former, by one interpretation of his name, is one Of the Old celestial genii, the bright ones; the latter, Devaki, the divine one, has been identified with the seductive water-nymph of folklore. But more probably in Devaki and Krishna we may see representatives of the world-wide group of the divine mother and the fateful child - Nana of Babylon, Isis and Horus in Egypt, Lucina and her child in Latin tradition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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