Krishna

== Proposed datings ==
{{See also|Vedic-Puranic chronology|History of Hinduism}}
[[File:RadhaKrishnaUdaipur.JPG|thumb|upright|14th-century [[fresco]] of [[Radha Krishna]] in [[Udaipur]], Rajasthan]]

The date of Krishna's birth is celebrated every year as [[Janmashtami]].{{sfn|Knott|2000}}{{page needed|date=December 2021}}

According to Guy Beck, "most scholars of Hinduism and Indian history accept the historicity of Krishna{{snd}}that he was a real male person, whether human or divine, who lived on Indian soil by at least 1000 BCE and interacted with many other historical persons within the cycles of the epic and puranic histories." Yet, Beck also notes that there is an "enormous number of contradictions and discrepancies surrounding the chronology of Krishna's life as depicted in the Sanskrit canon".<ref>{{cite book|title=Alternative Krishnas: Regional And Vernacular Variations on a Hindu Deity|pages=4–5|first=Guy|last=Beck|publisher=Suny Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K0XqbG0LKBUC&pg=PA4|isbn=978-0-7914-8341-1|date=2012}}</ref>

According to texts in the Jain tradition, Krishna was a cousin of Neminatha.{{sfn|Sangave|2001|p=104}} Neminatha is believed in the Jain tradition to have been born 84,000 years before the 9th-century{{nbsp}}BCE [[Parshvanatha]], the twenty-third ''tirthankara''.{{sfn|Zimmer|1953|p=226}}