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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 24]
TRANSLATION
By the semen of Vasudeva in the womb of Devarakṣitā, nine sons were born, headed by Gadā. Vasudeva, who was religion personified, also had a wife named Sahadevā, by whose womb he begot eight sons, headed by Śruta and Pravara.
TEXTS 53-55
प्रवरश्रुतमुख्यांश्च साक्षाद् धर्मो वस्त्रनिव । 
  वसुदेवस्तु देवक्यामष्ट पुत्रानजीजनत् ॥५३॥ 
  कीर्तिमन्तं सुषेणं च भद्रसेनमुदारधीः । 
  ऋजुं सम्मर्दनं भद्रं संकर्षणमहीश्वरम् ॥५४॥ 
  अष्टमस्तु तयोरासीत् स्वयमेव हरिः किल । 
  सुभद्रा च महाभागा तव राजन् पितामही ॥५५॥
pravara-śruta-mukhyānis ca 
  sākṣād dharmo vasūn iva 
  vasudevas tu devakyām 
  aṣṭa putrān ajījanat
kīrtimantaṁ suṣeṇaṁ ca 
  bhadrasenam udāra-dhīḥ 
  rjuṁ sammardanaṁ bhadraṁ 
  saṅkarṣaṇam ahīśvaram
aṣṭamas tu tayor āsīt 
  svayam eva hariḥ kila 
  subhadrā ca mahābhāgā 
  tava rājan pitāmahī
pravara—Pravara (in some readings, Pauvara); śruta—Śruta; mukhyān—headed by; ca—and; sākṣāt—directly; dharmaḥ—religion personified; vasūn iva—exactly like the chief Vasus in the heavenly planets; vasudevaḥ—Śrīla Vasudeva, the father of Kṛṣṇa; tu—indeed; devakyām—in the womb of Devakī; aṣṭa—eight; putrān—sons;