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{{Infobox deity
| type = Hindu
| image = Indischer Maler um 1755 002.jpg
| caption = Nanda (right) watches Krishna being pushed on a swing.
| spouse = [[Yashoda]]
| children = [[Krishna]], [[Balarama]] (foster-children)<br>[[Yogamaya]] (biological daughter)
| dynasty =
| texts = ''[[Bhagavata Purana]]'', ''[[Harivamsa]]'', ''[[Vishnu Purana]]'', ''[[Mahabharata]]''<ref>Brahmavaivarta Purana Sri-Krishna Janma Khanda (Fourth Canto) Chapter 13.Verse 224 English translation by Shantilal Nagar Parimal Publications Link: https://archive.org/details/brahma-vaivarta-purana-all-four-kandas-english-translation</ref>
| region = Gokulam
| father = [[ Parjanya (Hinduism) ]]
}}{{short description|Foster-father of Hindu god Krishna}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}

'''Nanda''' or '''Nandagopa''' ({{Langx|sa|नन्द}}, {{IAST3|Nanda}}) is a cow-herd chief in [[Hindu mythology]],<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bhatt |first1=Dr G. P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sG_tDwAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+cowherd+chief&pg=PA1137 |title=The Agni-Purana Part 4: Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 30 |last2=Gangadharan |first2=N. |date=2013-01-01 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-3897-0 |pages=1137 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Books |first=Kausiki |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPdJEAAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+cowherd+chief&pg=PT119 |title=Bhagavatha Maha Purana 1st Skanda : English translation only without Slokas |date=2021-07-12 |publisher=Kausiki Books |pages=119 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Case |first=Margaret H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zh7OoTSH5UwC&dq=nanda+cowherd+chief&pg=PA3 |title=Seeing Krishna: The Religious World of a Brahman Family in Vrindaban |date=2000-04-20 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-535153-8 |pages=3 |language=en}}</ref> who is the foster-father of [[Krishna]]. He is featured in the [[Hindu texts]] [[Harivaṃśa]] and the [[Puranas]].<ref name="gbbok2">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=htVhBAAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+vasudeva&pg=PT79 | title=Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead- Chepter-5 | publisher=The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust | author=His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad | isbn=978-9171495587}}</ref> Nanda is the son of [[Parjanya Maharaja|Parjanya]],<ref name="Das1999">{{cite book|author=Swarup Das|title=Śrī Śrī 84 Krosh Vrajamaṇḍala|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UHnXAAAAMAAJ&q=parjanya+nanda|year=1999|publisher=Samir Debanth}}</ref><ref name="Entwistle1987">{{cite book|author=A. W. Entwistle|title=Braj: Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2YoRAQAAIAAJ&q=parjanya|year=1987|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=978-90-6980-016-5}}</ref> a ruler of the [[Braj]] region,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Holdrege |first=Barbara A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_tBgCgAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+vraja&pg=PT235 |title=Bhakti and Embodiment: Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in Krsna Bhakti |date=2015-08-14 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-66909-8 |pages=235 |language=en}}</ref> who is a son of Devamidha.<ref name="Cakravartī2004">{{cite book|author=Viśvanātha Cakravartī|title=Sārārtha Darśini: Tenth Canto Commnetaries [of] Srimad Bhagavatam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r2vXAAAAMAAJ&q=parjanya+yadava|year=2004|publisher=Mahanidhi Swami}}</ref> According to sources He was [[Cowherd]] and the chief of [[Gokul|Gokulam]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lach |first1=Donald Frederick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPPiumz4vx0C&dq=nanda+gokulam&pg=PA1052 |title=South Asia |last2=Kley |first2=Edwin J. Van |date=1993 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-46754-2 |pages=1052 |language=en}}</ref> which was one of the powerful mandals of the [[Yadava|Yadavas]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taken by Vasudeva and given to Nanda, the cow-herd, who was asked to accept him as his adopted child. |first=Gendun Chopel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSZnAgAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+was+a+cow+herder&pg=PA384 |title=Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler |date=2014-01-17 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-09202-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="GBook1">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bOEAwAAQBAJ&dq=nand+vasudev&pg=PA119 | title=The Greatest Farce of History | publisher=Partridge Publishing | author=Gopal Chowdhary | year=2014 | pages=119 |isbn=978-1482819250 | quote= Krishnas father Vasudev was the brother of Nanda, the chief or Mandaladhish of Gokul Mandal that was one of the most powerful branches of Yadavas.}}</ref>

According to sources Vasudeva and Nanda were Brothers, while there are also sources which state the two being step-brothers and good friends.<ref>{{Cite book |last=When Vasudev, his stepbrother, learned Nanda had arrived, he went at once to tell him how his wife and he survived. As Nanda greeted Vasudev, embracing him with love, he felt he had regained his life and thanked the stars above. |first=Carl Woodham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYsJnhaeVuMC&dq=vasudev+stepbrother&pg=PA95 |title=A God Who Dances: Krishna for You |date=2011-07-20 |publisher=Torchlight Publishing |isbn=978-0-9817273-6-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Prabhupāda |first=A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGvXAAAAMAAJ&q=vasudev+stepbrother |title=Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: pt. 1-4. The summum bonum |date=1999 |publisher=Bhaktivedanta Book Trust |isbn=978-0-89213-261-4 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Cakravartī2004"/><ref name="GBook1"/><ref name="Lok Nath Soni">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wT-BAAAAMAAJ&q=vasudeva | title=The Cattle and the Stick: An Ethnographic Profile of the Raut of Chhattisgarh | publisher=Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Department of Culture, 2000 Original from the University of Michigan | author=Lok Nath Soni | year=2000 | location=Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Department of Culture, Delhi | pages=16 | isbn=978-8185579573}}</ref> Vasudeva takes his newborn son, Krishna, to Nanda on the night of the child's birth, so that Nanda could raise him and to protect new born [[Krishna]] from his maternal uncle [[Kamsa]]. The chief, who is married to [[Yashoda]], brings up both Krishna, and his brother, [[Balarama]]. Krishna derives his epithet ''Nandanandana'' (son of Nanda) from him.<ref name="John Stratton Hawley">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jP7_AwAAQBAJ&dq=Nandanandana+krishna&pg=PA316 | title=At Play with Krishna: Pilgrimage Dramas from Brindaran | publisher=Princeton University Press | author=John Stratton Hawley | year=2014 | location=Princeton Legacy Library | pages=316 | isbn=978-1400859122}}</ref><ref name="Charles Barnett">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=veGFAwAAQBAJ&dq=Nandanandana+krishna&pg=PT162 | title=Blazing Sadhus or Never Trust a Holy Man Who Can't Dance | publisher=Charles Barnett | author=Charles Barnett | year=2014 | pages=III | isbn=978-1632958624 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Legend==
[[File:Nanda Requests a Horoscope for Krishna.jpg|thumb|260x260px|Nanda requests a horoscope for Krishna.]]
Nanda was the foster-father of Krishna. He also helped to raise Balarama. Nanda, identified as King Nanda in many scriptures<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sehgal |first=Sunil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDmwCcLza2AC&dq=nanda+king+gokula&pg=PA1084 |title=Encyclopaedia of Hinduism |date=1999 |publisher=Sarup & Sons |isbn=978-81-7625-064-1 |pages=1084 |language=en}}</ref> was a kinsman and a great friend of [[Vasudeva]].<ref name="Shrí Lallú Lal Kab">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16AIAAAAQAAJ&dq=nand+nand++gokul&pg=PA18 | title=Prem ságar; or, The ocean of love | publisher=Oxford University | year=1867 | pages=18}}</ref> According to Sripad Madhvacarya, Vasudeva and Nanda were step-brothers. Some other sources suggests them to be only friends.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Vasudeva and Nanda Mahãraja were so intimately connected that they lived like brothers. Furthermore, it is learned from the notes of Sripada Madhvacarya that Vasudeva and Nanda Maharaja were stepbrothers. Vasudeva's father, Surasena, married a vaisya girl, and from her Nanda Maharaja was born. Later, Nanda Maharaja himself married a vaisya girl, Yasoda. |first1=His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oohOCgAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+vaisya&pg=PT457 |title=Srimad-Bhagavatam, Tenth Canto: The Summum Bonum |last2=Prabhupada |first2=Disciples of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami |date=1977-12-31 |publisher=The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust |isbn=978-91-7149-643-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=We can cite another instance from Srimad Bhagavatam which relates to the meeting of two friends, Nanda and Vasudeva. Nanda was the leader of a cowherd community and Vasudeva was a dethroned king. Vasudeva was a ksatriya, and Nanda Maharaja was a vaisya. It is the duty of the ksatriyas to give protection to the citizens, and it is the duty of the vaisyas to give protection to the cows. |first=Dr Sahadeva Das |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HSHlEAAAQBAJ&dq=vasudev+and+nanda+were+friends&pg=PA86 |title=Cows Are Cool |date=2018-01-01 |publisher=Golden Age Media |isbn=978-81-909760-4-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=had the embryo transferred to the womb of Rohini, a second wife of Vasudeva who lived in the encampment of his friend Nanda. |first=Alan W. Entwistle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDZEEQAAQBAJ&dq=vasudev+and+nanda+were+friends&pg=PA31 |title=Braj, Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage |date=2025-02-10 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-64659-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Olson2007">{{cite book|author=Carl Olson|title=Hindu Primary Sources: A Sectarian Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zuqB0o8aGzMC&pg=PA240|access-date=21 August 2017|year=2007|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-4070-2|pages=240–| quote = when he heard that his brother Nanda had arrived and learnt that he had paid taxes to his king, Vasudeva went to Nandas residential quarters. }}</ref><ref name="Gosvāmī2006">{{cite book|author=Jīva Gosvāmī|title=Śrī Kr̥ṣṇa-sandarbha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bG7aAAAAMAAJ&q=Nanda|access-date=21 August 2017|year=2006|publisher=Rasbiharilal & sons| page = 299 | isbn=978-81-8403-018-1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/menon-ramesh-the-complete-mahabharata-volume-1-12 |title=The Complete Mahabharata Volume 1 to 12 |pages=2034 |language=English}}</ref>
King [[Vasudeva]] married [[Devaki]], the daughter of King Devaka.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dalal |first=Roshen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrk0AwAAQBAJ&dq=devaka+father+of+devaki&pg=PT424 |title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide |date=2014-04-18 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-81-8475-277-9 |pages=424 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Garg |first=Gaṅgā Rām |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9pmo51lRnYC&dq=king+devaka&pg=PA21 |title=Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World |date=1992 |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |isbn=978-81-7022-374-0 |pages=21 |language=en}}</ref> Devaki's cousin, an evil tyrant named [[Kamsa]], had imprisoned his father, [[Ugrasena]], and usurped the throne. Owing to a divine prophecy that he would be slain by the eighth child of Devaki, [[Kamsa]] arranged that all of Devaki's sons should die at birth. Six children thus perished.<ref name="Bhagwat Purana2">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYsJnhaeVuMC&dq=king+nanda&pg=PA189 | title=A God Who Dances: Krishna for You | publisher=Torchlight Publishing | author=Carl Woodham | year=2011 | pages=84 | isbn=978-0981727363}}</ref> [[Vasudeva]]'s wife, [[Rohini (wife of Vasudeva)|Rohini]], gave birth to Balarama, and [[Krishna]] himself was placed by [[Vasudeva]] into the hands of Nanda. Both Krishna and Balarama were brought up by Nanda, the cowherd-chief, and his wife, Yashoda.<ref name="Bhagwat Purana3">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYsJnhaeVuMC&dq=king+nanda&pg=PA189 | title=A God Who Dances: Krishna for You | publisher=Torchlight Publishing | author=Carl Woodham | year=2011 | pages=103–121 | isbn=978-0981727363}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHTmRSnoGp4C&dq=king+nanda+krishna&pg=PA14 | title=The Bhagavad Gita: Revised Edition | publisher=SUNY Press | author=Winthrop Sargeant, Christopher Key Chapple | year=1984 | pages=9, 14 | isbn=978-0873958318}}</ref><ref name="Jürgen Neuß">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5TYd6pXmdIC&dq=nanda+gop&pg=PA265 | title=Narmad?parikram? - Circumambulation of the Narmad? River: On the Tradition of a Unique Hindu Pilgrimage Volume 42 of Brill's Indological Library | publisher=BRILL | author=Jürgen Neuß | year=2012 | pages=265 | isbn=978-9004228573}}</ref>

A legend from the Bhagavata Purana describes the episode of Nanda's abduction. Having observed a fast during the [[ekadashi]], he entered the waters of the [[Yamuna]] the following night to perform ablutions, disregarding the fact that it was a period of the day that was reserved for the [[Asura|asuras]]. He was captured by an asura who served [[Varuna]], the god of water, and took him to his underwater realm. Having heard that his foster-father had been taken captive, Krishna reassured his community of the former's safety, and sought an audience with Varuna. Delighted at the sight of Krishna, Varuna offered his obeisance, as well as apologies for his servant's actions, and returned Nanda from his abode. Astonished at the sight of Varuna's abode as well as his foster-son's actions, Nanda conveyed this incident to the people of Gokulam, who determined that Krishna must be [[Ishvara]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dutt |first=Manmatha Nath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQQ-AQAAMAAJ&dq=krishna+nanda+abducted+varuna+asura&pg=RA2-PA128 |title=A Prose English Translation of Srimadbhagavatam |date=1896 |publisher=M.N. Dutt |pages=128–129 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Dikshitar |first=V. R. Ramachandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmqe3AGz5fUC&dq=nanda+chief+gokulam+purana&pg=PA435 |title=The Purāṇa index. 2. (From T to M) |date=1995 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers |isbn=978-81-209-1274-8 |pages=435 |language=en}}</ref>

When Krishna is enveloped by the serpent [[Kaliya]], Nanda and his men attempt to rescue him by diving into the Yamuna, but he was restrained by Balarama, who knew the true identity of his brother.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hudson |first=D. Dennis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXlMCAAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+kaliya&pg=PT215 |title=The Body of God: An Emperor's Palace for Krishna in Eighth-Century Kanchipuram |date=2008-09-25 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-045140-0 |pages=215 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Leeming |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPrhBwAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+kaliya&pg=PA232 |title=Oxford Companion to World Mythology |date=2005-11-17 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-028888-4 |pages=232 |language=en}}</ref>

In an episode, Nanda and all the people of Vraja undertook a pilgrimage to a site named Ambika Vana, where they worshipped [[Shiva]] and [[Parvati]], and bathed in the [[Sarasvati River|Sarasvati river]]. They spent the night at the banks of the river. A huge python started to swallow Nanda, having caught hold of his leg. Hearing his cries for help, Krishna and the cowherds arrived to rescue him. The men tried to brandish their torches at the snake to free him, but to no avail. Krishna merely tapped the python with his foot, and the creature assumed the form of a [[gandharva]]. The gandharva explained that he was named Sudarshana, and due to the fact that he had laughed to mock [[Rishi|sages]] from his [[vimana]], he had been cursed with the form of a python; the touch of Krishna's foot had liberated him from his curse.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Venkatesananda |first=Swami |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SS01AAAAQBAJ&dq=nanda+python&pg=PA270 |title=The Concise Srimad Bhagavatam |date=2010-03-31 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-1-4384-2283-1 |pages=270 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Vanamali |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LFwoDwAAQBAJ&dq=python+nanda&pg=PT97 |title=The Complete Life of Krishna: Based on the Earliest Oral Traditions and the Sacred Scriptures |date=2012-05-22 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-59477-690-8 |pages=97 |language=en}}</ref>

==Genealogy==

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==Veneration==
[[File:नंदगाँव का एक दृश्य.JPG|thumb|right|Nandagaon]]
[[File: Lathmar Women.jpg|thumb|right|Women waiting for gopis in the streets of Nandagaon during [[Lath mar Holi]]]]

===Nandagaon===
{{Main|Nandgaon, Uttar Pradesh}}

Nandagaon is one of the religious places near [[Barsana]] in [[Braj]]. Since the sixteenth century the town has been associated with Nanda and Krishna. The Nanda Bhavan aka Nandrayji ka Mandir houses identical images of Krishna and Balarama flanked by Nanda and Yashoda. The current temple was built in the mid-eighteenth century by a ruler named Rup (Roop) Singh.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Entwistle |first=A.W. |title=Braj: Center of Krishna Pilgrimage |publisher=Egbert Forsten |year=1987 |pages=377–378}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vaudeville |first=Charlotte |date=1976 |title=Braj, Lost and Found |journal=Indo-Iranian Journal |publisher=Brill |volume=18 |issue=3/4 |pages=205 |doi=10.1163/000000076790079717 }}</ref>

Surrounding the town are several tanks and ponds associated with events from Krishna's life.{{Sfn|Entwistle|1987|p=379-382}}

===Nanda Bhavan (Chaurasi Khamba Mandir)===
The residence of Nanda, known as ''Nanda Bhavan'', where Krishna is said to have grown up and spent the first three years of his childhood is a main and most famous temple in [[Mahavan]]. This yellow coloured building has many wall paintings depicting pastimes of [[Krishna]] has 84 pillars inside. It is believed that there are 84,00,000 species in this material world and each pillar is said to symbolize 100,000 species, thus representing all the life in the universe.<ref name=" Dev Prasad">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0_5caqiUH0C&dq=gokul&pg=PT54 | title=Krishna: A Journey through the Lands & Legends of Krishna | publisher=Jaico Publishing House | author=Dev Prasad | year=2010 | isbn=978-8184951707}}</ref>

===Nanda Ghata===
The Nanda Ghata is situated on the banks of the sacred river [[Yamuna]]. The Ghata (Riverbank) is related to the rescue of Nanda's abduction by the [[asura]] of [[Varuna]], while Nanda was taking a bath in the holy river, [[Yamuna]].<ref name="Trilochan Dash">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YjhTtkcwE0C&dq=king+nanda+krishna&pg=PA218 | title=Krishna Leeela in Brajamandal a Retrospect | publisher=Saudamini Dash | author=Trilochan Dash | year=2012 | pages=211}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Commons category}}
*[[Parjanya Maharaja|Parjanya]]
*[[Yashoda]]
*[[Vasudeva]]
* [[Vrishabhanu]]
* [[Krishna]]
* [[Balarama]]

==References==
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*'' Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend'' ({{ISBN|0-500-51088-1}}) by Anna Dallapiccola

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