Vakula Devi

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Vakula Devi (Sanskrit: वकुलदेवी, romanized: Vakuladevī) is the foster-mother of the Hindu god Venkateshvara, a form of Vishnu. As per the legend of Tirumala, the legend of Vakula Devi dates back to the Dvapara Yuga. In the legend, Yashoda, the foster-mother of Krishna, an avatara of Vishnu, complained to him that she could not witness his wedding with Rukmini, an avatara of Lakshmi. To this, Krishna replied he would ensure that she would get such an opportunity to see his marriage to a form of Lakshmi in the Kali Yuga.

In the Kali Yuga, Vishnu has taken the form of Venkateshvara, and Yashoda was reborn as Vakula Devi, the foster-mother of Venkateshvara. As promised by the god, she arranged her foster-son's wedding with Padmavati, the foster-daughter of Akasha Raja and Dharani Rani, who was a form of Lakshmi.^[1]