While the Pandava and Kaurava princes are growing up in Hastinapur, in the nearby kingdom of Mathura, Krishna is born to Devaki and Vasudev. Devaki is the daughter of King Ugrasena and the sister of Kansa. Kansa is evil by nature and he imprisons his own father and usurps the throne of Mathura. People suffer under his tyrranical rule and there is prophecy that the eight son born to his sister Devaki will bring and end to his Tyranny. Kansa gets paranoid and imprisons Devki and Vasudev and ends up killing the first seven children born to them immediately upon birth. But when an eigth son is born to Devaki, miraculously the guards fall asleep and the prison gates unlock. Vasudev gets a dream that he is to carry Baby Krishna to Gokul and swap him with the daughter born to Nanda and Yashoda in Gokul. Vasudev is able to safely carry the newborn through a flooded river in the middle of thu der and lightening, guarded by the seven headed snake of Lord Vishnu named Sheshnag. When Vasudev reaches the prison, the guards wake up and Kans arrives to kill the baby who flies into the air and lets Kans know that his destroyer is already born and is safe in Gokul. Krishna grows up under the love and care of Nanda and Yashoda in Gokul while Kans tries every measure possible to find and kill Krishna. In doing so, he kills several innocent children born at that time.