How did Shri Krishna look like?

The figure of Lord Krishna is depicted as having blue or blue-black skin. He holds a flute (bansuri) and sometimes accompanied by a cow or cowherd. Krishna is also known by many other names, such as Govinda, Madhusudhana, Vasudeva and Mukunda.
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What skin colour was Krishna?

Etymologically speaking, the Sanskrit word 'Krishna' means black or dark. At times, it is also translated as “all attractive”. According to Vedas, Lord Krishna is a dark-skinned Dravidian god. Even in traditional patta chitras (cloth art) in Odisha, Lord Krishna and Vishnu are always shown having black skin.
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How is Krishna described?

Krishna is one of the most popular deities of the Puranic pantheon. A warrior, a child god of a pastoral tribe, a preacher, and a love deity, his saga is an amalgamation of many disparate elements in one harmonious and coherent whole.
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Is Krishna white or black?

Metal images were the only ones that were “fair” or golden. By the time of Pahari paintings (1800s), Krushna is light blue in colour and no longer black. Even in Rajasthan, Krushna becomes lighter shade of black. Even Shrinathji becomes indigo blue in popular depiction.
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How handsome is Lord Krishna?

He is described as Bhuvana Sundara, the most handsome One in the whole universe, said Adur Asuri Madhavachari in a discourse. In Gokula, Krishna would graze the cows during the day, but when he returned in the evening, even though His face would be covered with dust, His beauty would in no way be diminished.
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HOW DOES LORD KRISHNA LOOK LIKE?



Is Krishna shy?

He has a shy personality but is also very tricky at times, He as a sweet personality and is very deep and grave. He is poetic and calm in his speech. He is gentle and quiet at the same time, always smiling and reciprocating. he respects elders and friends and is the perfect embodiment of a true character.
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Why is Krishna's skin blue?

While fighting the snake, Krishna was exposed to the snake's venom that made his skin blue in colour. However, many also believe that within Krishna there lay a cosmic strength that is invisible to mortal eyes. Hence, his body appears blue in colour.
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Is Krishna a real person?

"There is sufficient evidence available now to suggest that Krishna was indeed a historical figure, who lived about 5000 years ago. This evidence is not just literary but also archaeological, geographical as well as astronomical," he claims.
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What is the skin colour of Lord Rama?

As Balaram He is white, as Rama He is green, as Mahaprabhu He is golden, and in some other yuga He is red.
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What was the height of Lord Krishna?

Lord krishna was around 5″8″ to 5″10″ but pandavas were 6 to 8″5″ feet tall. Among all pandvas karna and bheema were almost similar both were around 8″5″ arjuna was 7 feet and yudhishter was 7″9″ nakul and sahdev were 6″2″ . It is said krishna's height was equal to the average woman of that era.
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Is Krishna a boy or girl?

In Hinduism, god is sometimes visualized as a male god such as Krishna (left), or goddess such as Lakshmi (middle), bigender such as Ardhanarishvara (a composite of Shiva - male - and Parvati - female) (right), or as formless and genderless Brahman (Universal Absolute, Supreme Self as Oneness in everyone).
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Is Lord Krishna family still alive?

End of the Vrishnis

These things in due time came to pass. A madness seized the people of Dwaraka so that they fell upon one another and were slain, together with all sons and grandsons of Krishna. Only the women and Krishna and Balarama remained alive.
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What is the skin colour of Radha?

Lord Krishna, when he was an infant, was fed on the poisonous breast milk of Putana—making his skin blue in colour. On the other hand, Radha was extremely fair-skinned with a tint of golden glow to it.
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Are Indian gods black?

A larger number of Indians criticised Subramanya's intervention, pointing out that Hindu gods are black, blue, yellow, red, white, and pink. "Goddess Kali, Krishna, Shiva, Ram and so many other gods are never light skinned! In fact in southern India so many goddesses like Mariyamma, Chamundeshwari etc.
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What colour is Shiva's skin?

Lord Shiva is described as 'White as camphor or snow clad mountain. '
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Where is Lord Krishna now?

The pilgrimage (tirtha) site of Bhalka in Gujarat marks the location where Krishna is believed to have died. It is also known as Dehotsarga, states Diana L. Eck, a term that literally means the place where Krishna "gave up his body".
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Is Radha real?

Unlike her paramour, Krishna, who may once have been a human hero elevated to divinity through legends, Radha is decidedly fictional.
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What is Lord Krishna's Favourite food?

Maakhan Mishri: It is considered to be Lord Krishna's favorite, it is made with fresh homemade butter that is mixed with rock sugar or sugar and offered to the deity.
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What is Lord Vishnu Favourite colour?

Lord vishnu's favourite colour is yellow. Lord vishnu amd lord krishna both loves yellow colour a lot. They are known by the name Pitaambar dhari , the one who wears yellow coloured clothes.
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Is Radha wife of Lord Krishna?

Radha, in Hinduism, the gopi (milkmaid) who became the beloved of the god Krishna during that period of his life when he lived among the gopas (cowherds) of Vrindavan. Radha was the wife of another gopa but was the dearest of Krishna's consorts and his constant companion.
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Who is the most beautiful Indian god?

Indrani (Sanskrit: इन्द्राणी, IAST: Indrāṇī, lit. Indra's queen), also known as Shachi (Sanskrit: शची, IAST: Śacī), is the queen of the devas in Hinduism. Described as tantalisingly beautiful, proud, and kind, she is also the ruler of the planet Venus.
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How did Lord Shiva look like?

Shiva is usually depicted as white, from the ashes of corpses that are smeared on his body, with a blue neck, from holding poison in his throat. His wears a crescent moon and the Ganges River as decorations in his hair and a garland of skulls and a serpent around his neck.
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Who is the most beautiful god?

Aphrodite was the most beautiful of all the Goddesses. Aphrodite was the most beautiful of all the Goddesses and there are many tales of how she could encourage both Gods and humans to fall in love with her.
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