Krishna, dark as a rain cloud, asks his mother Yashoda why Radha is so fair. Yashoda laughs and tells him to go and colour her face whatever colour he likes. He goes to Barsana with the cowherd boys of Nandgaon and smears colour on Radha and her friends. The women of Barsana chase them out with sticks. On the ninth of the bright half of Phalguna the men of Nandgaon still come to Barsana with shields, and the women beat them with lathis; on the tenth the women of Barsana go to Nandgaon.
Lathmar Holi of Barsana and Nandgaon (Tusk Travel; Firstpost); Holi, Encyclopaedia Britannica
In spring the gopis of Braj come to Nanda's house with baskets of coloured powder and syringes of saffron water, singing and beating drums, and play Holi with Krishna. He and his friends answer them with colour until everyone is drenched. Radha is there among them; the play of colours is told as the love of the god and his devotees.
No question to Yashoda and no sticks; the gopis come to Nanda's house.
Garga Samhita, Madhurya Khanda, chapter 12, English rendering (Garga Bhagavatham)
Sources: Lathmar Holi of Barsana and Nandgaon (Tusk Travel; Firstpost); Holi, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Garga Samhita, Madhurya Khanda, chapter 12, English rendering (Garga Bhagavatham)
The Asura Pralamba joins the cowherd boys' game disguised as one of them, loses to Balarama and has to carry him, and runs off with him growing huge; in the Vishnu Purana Krishna reminds Balarama of his own nature, in the Bhagavata he remembers alone; he kills the demon.
Balarama, teacher of the mace to both Bhima and Duryodhana, refuses to fight in the Kurukshetra war and goes on pilgrimage; he returns for the final duel, and when Bhima strikes below the navel he rushes at him with his plough until Krishna holds him back, then leaves for Dwaraka. In the Bhagavata he tries to stop the duel and fails.
King Yadu meets a young wandering sage who is happy and fearless, and asks who taught him; the sage names twenty-four teachers, the earth, the wind, a pigeon, a python, a moth, a courtesan named Pingala, a girl's bangles and a spider among them; tradition calls him Dattatreya.
The boy Krishna leaps into the Yamuna pool poisoned by the serpent Kaliya, is bound in his coils while Vrindavan weeps on the bank, then dances on his hoods until the serpent's wives beg for his life, and sends him back to the sea.
Twice a year, at the end of the Painkuni and Alpassi festivals, the images of Padmanabhaswamy, Narasimha and Krishna are carried from the temple to the sea at Shanghumugham, across the runway of Thiruvananthapuram's international airport, which closes for the evening.
In Jayadeva's Gita Govinda Radha, finding Krishna dancing with others in spring, withdraws in jealous grief until her friend carries messages between them and Krishna, repentant, begs her to set her foot on his head; the devotional legend says Jayadeva dared not write that line and Krishna came and wrote it himself.
Vrishabhanu finds a baby girl on a lotus in the Yamuna at Raval; she keeps her eyes shut until the infant Krishna is brought before her; the Brahma Vaivarta Purana adds that she came from Krishna's own left side in Goloka and was born on earth through a curse.
Krishna, now in Mathura, sends Uddhava to console the women of Vraja with talk of the formless god; one of them, speaking to a bee, mocks the messenger; the Bhagavata never names her but commentators and poets made her Radha, and Surdas's Bhramar Geet turns the scene into the gopis' refusal of Uddhava's teaching.