Narakasura’s Family Tree

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Family

• Bhudevi(parent),Vishnu(parent)— Consort

  Bhudevi is Vishnu's second consort, rescued in his Varaha avatar by lifting her from the cosmic ocean. Their son Narakasura grew to become a tyrannical demon king before Krishna ended his reign.

• Bhudevi(parent),Varaha(parent)— Consort

  Narakasura, the fearsome asura lord of Pragjyotishpura, was born from the union of Varaha and Bhudevi — a demon son of the divine boar and the earth, whose tyranny would later require Krishna to intervene at his own mother Bhudevi's plea.

  ⚠ Some Puranic traditions attribute Narakasura's parentage to Vishnu and Bhudevi broadly rather than specifically to the Varaha avatara. The Bhagavata Purana (10.59) names Bhudevi as mother without specifying the father's form.

Slain by

• Krishna

  Krishna and Satyabhama flew to Pragjyotisha on Garuda and slew the demon king Narakasura, who had imprisoned sixteen thousand captive women and stolen Aditi's earrings from heaven.