9/10/2015 Why is Lord Krishna called Ranchod? http://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/whyislordkrishnacalledranchod 1/10 VIEWS 72K COMMENTS 92 Blog by Vivek Kumar (http://www.speakingtree.in/vivek.kumar) Why is Lord Krishna called Ranchod? Jun 12, 2015 View as Slideshow (http://www.speakingtree.in/slideshow/why-is-lord-krishna- called-ranchod) (http://www.speakingtree.in/slideshow/i it-possible-to-work-without-reward) (http://www.speakingtree.in/article/a- true-patriot-transcends-geography) 1. Krishna has many names Krishna was sporty and his leelas extend in various fields involving various individuals. Some of them are with the milkmaids of Vraja while some involve the Pandavas. He has acquired a lot of names based on these Leelas. 2. Names from Rakshasas Is it possible to wo (http://www.speak it-possible-to-work Does patriotism ha (http://www.speak true-patriot-transc popular (http://www.speakingtree.in) connect Follow Masters & Seekers (http://www.speakingtree.in/masters) ask Looking for answers? Start here... (http://www.speakingtree.in/discussions write Create Blogs & Slideshows HOME (HTTP://WWW.SPEAKINGTREE.IN) EDITORIALS SATSANGS BLOGS MASTERS SEEKERS DISCUSSIONS SLIDESHOWS
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Krishna was sporty and his leelas extend in various fields involving various individuals. Some ofthem are with the milkmaids of Vraja while some involve the Pandavas. He has acquired a lot ofnames based on these Leelas.
2. Names from Rakshasas
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However, he also gets many names from Rakshasa--the ones that he killed or liberated. Forexample, Madhusudan. He got this name because he is the slayer of demon named Madhu.
3. Ranchod
Ranchod is a name given to Krishna due to a very distinct leela that he did. It literally means theone who flees the battlefield. We will discuss the story behind this name in this article.
4. Jarasandha friendship with Kalyavan
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Sage Sheshirayan performed severe penance to propitiate Lord Shiva. Lord Siva blesssed himwith a boon of a son who would not be defeated.
7. Krishna had a strategy
Because this king could not be defeated, Krishna thought of a strategy saving the city of Mathurafrom another war. He flees the battleground and moves towards mountains away from thepopulace and the army.
Not leaving the enemy to escape from his net, Kalyavan follows Lord Krishna to those mountainsand caves. He had marked Lord Krishna's distinct yellow cloth as the spotting point.
9. Sage Muchukund
Now, in one of the caves in those mountains, there slept a sage of ancient times who had notwoken up. The story says that he had helped gods in the war against demons, and in the boon hehad asked for sleep, because he felt tired. He also asked that if somebody happened to wake himup, he may get burnt from the light that would emerge from his eyes.
Krishna knew both the boons given to Kalyavan and Muchukund. He put the yellow cloth on thesleeping sage and hid himself behind a boulder.
11. Kalyavan mistook Muchukund as Krishna
Kalyavan mistakenly assumes that Krishna is lying there because the sage had his cloth on--hetries to wake him up. When the sage wakes up, he burns Kalyavan because of his boon.
Lord Krishna appeared before the sage and blessed him for helping him kill a demon. He alsoblessed him with his vision and asked him to move to Badri Ashram.
13. The significance
Ranchod seems to be a negative name, but very strategically, Lord Krishna used this name toexecute a plan where no armies collided by the enemy was killed.
Like Makhan-chor, where people accuse Krishna lovingly of stealing their butter, Ranchod becamean endearing name and Lord Krishna became famous with this name owing to this incident.
15. What're your thoughts
What're your thoughts on this name? Have you heard it before or is it the first time you arecoming to know this story? Share your views with us.
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I read this story earlier. How cleverly Lord Krishna killed Kaalyavan
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Thought Krishna left battle and moved to Dwarka. Hence called so.
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