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 Some have also said it was in the 13th or 12th century B.C. Dhirendra Nath Pal, a writer of the present day, ably says that Sri Krishna lived between the 15th and the 16th century before Christ. I strongly recommend his book on "Sri Krishna, His Life and Teachings" to you all, and advise you to read it from the beginning to the end. The general Hindu belief is that Sri Krishna was born at the end of the Dwapara, or at the beginning of Kali Yuga, i.e., about 5,006 years ago. Anyhow he lived several thousands of years ago. All our Hindu Puranas were not written at one time nor by one person; They all begin their accounts from the suposed time of creation and very boldly end with predictions regarding the future even up to the end of the present Kali Yuga. Getting their materials from all available sources, these Puranas began to be written several hundreds of years after