2 SMUGGLING [I as Krishna was born in prison to devout parents – Devaki and Vasudeva. My parents were imprisoned by Kansa. At the time of my birth, my life was in danger because Kansa was seeking to kill me. It had been foretold that Kansa would be killed by my mother’s eighth child who was I. my father wanted to see me somewhere safe. Then miraculously, the watchmen at the prison fell into a slumber and all the locks and chains opened by themselves I was the eighth child, and in danger of Kansa so my father smuggled me