kṛṣṇá mf(A/)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śvetá, śuklá, róhita, and aruṇá), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
wicked, evil, [Vop. vii, 82]
kṛṣṇá (as), m. (with or without pakṣa) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Bhag.]; [Suśr.]
the fourth or Kali-yuga, [L.]
(kṛ́ṣṇas), black (the colour) or dark-blue (which is often confounded with black by the Hindūs), [L.]
the antelope, [RV. x, 94, 5]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [BhP.]
a kind of animal feeding on carrion, [AV. xi, 2, 2] (kṛṣṇá)
the Indian cuckoo or Kokila (cf. [R. ii, 52, 2]), [L.]
a crow, [L.]
Carissa Carandas, [L.]
N. of one of the poets of the [RV.] (descended from Aṅgiras), [RV. viii, 85, 3] and [4]; [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 9]
(a son of Devakī and pupil of Ghora Āṅgirasa), [ChUp. iii, 17, 6]
N. of a celebrated Avatār of the god Viṣṇu, or sometimes identified with Viṣṇu himself [[MBh. v, 2563]; [xiv, 1589 ff.]; [Hariv. 2359] &c.] as distinct from his ten Avatārs or incarnations (in the earlier legends he appears as a great hero and teacher [[MBh.]; [Bhag.]]; in the more recent he is deified, and is often represented as a young and amorous shepherd with flowing hair and a flute in his hand; the following are a few particulars of his birth and history as related in [Hariv. 3304 ff.] and in the Purāṇas &c.: Vasu-deva, who was a descendant of Yadu and Yayāti, had two wives, Rohiṇī and Devakī; the latter had eight sons of whom the eighth was Kṛṣṇa; Kaṃsa, king of Mathurā and cousin of Devakī, was informed by a prediction that one of these sons would kill him; he therefore kept Vasu-deva and his wife in confinement, and slew their first six children; the seventh was Balarāma who was saved by being abstracted from the womb of Devakī and transferred to that of Rohiṇī; the eighth was Kṛṣṇa who was born with black skin and a peculiar mark on his breast; his father Vasu-deva managed to escape from Mathurā with the child, and favoured by the gods found a herdsman named Nanda whose wife Yaśo-dā had just been delivered of a son which Vasu-deva conveyed to Devakī after substituting his own in its place. Nanda with his wife Yaśo-dā took the infant Kṛṣṇa and settled first in Gokula or Vraja, and afterwards in Vṛndāvana, where Kṛṣṇa and Bala-rāma grew up together, roaming in the woods and joining in the sports of the herdsmen's sons ; Kṛṣṇa as a youth contested the sovereignty of Indra, and was victorious over that god, who descended from heaven to praise Kṛṣṇa, and made him lord over the cattle [[Hariv. 3787 ff.]; [7456 ff.]; [VP.]]; Kṛṣṇa is described as sporting constantly with the Gopīs or shepherdesses [[Hariv. 4078 ff.]; [8301 ff.]; [VP.]; [Gīt.]] of whom a thousand became his wives, though only eight are specified, Rādhā being the favourite [[Hariv. 6694 ff.]; [9177 ff.]; [VP.]]; Kṛṣṇa built and fortified a city called Dvārakā in Gujarāt, and thither transported the inhabitants of Mathurā after killing Kaṃsa; Kṛṣṇa had various wives besides the Gopīs, and by Rukmiṇī had a son Pradyumna who is usually identified with Kāma-deva; with Jains, Kṛṣṇa is one of the nine black Vasu-devas; with Buddhists he is the chief of the black demons, who are the enemies of Buddha and the white demons)
N. of an attendant in Skanda's retinue, [MBh. ix, 2559]
of an Asura, [Hariv. 12936]; [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 101, 1]
of a king of the Nāgas, [MBh. ii, 360]; [Divyāv. ii]
of Arjuna (the most renowned of the Pāṇḍu princes, so named apparently from his colour as a child), [MBh. iv, 1389]
of Vyāsa, [MBh.]; [Hariv. 11089]
of Hārita See -hārita
of a son of Śuka by Pīvarī (teacher of the Yoga), [Hariv. 980 ff.]
of a pupil of Bharad-vāja, [Kathās. vii, 15]
of Havir-dhāna, [Hariv. 83]; [VP.]; [BhP. iv, 24, 8]
of a son of Arjuna, [Hariv. 1892]
of an adopted son of A-samañjas, [2039]
of a chief of the Andhras, [VP.]
of the author of a Comm. on the [MBh.]
of a poet
of the author of a Comm. on the Dayā-bhāga
of the son of Keśavārka and grandson of Jayāditya
of the father of Tāna-bhaṭṭa and uncle of Raṅga-nātha
of the father of Dāmodara and uncle of Malhaṇa
of the father of Prabhūjīka and uncle of Vidyā-dhara
of the father of Madana
of the grammarian Rāma-candra
of the son of Vāruṇendra and father of Lakṣmaṇa
of the father of Hīra-bhaṭṭa (author of the Comm. called Carakabhāṣya, and of the work Sāhitya-sudhā-samudra)
N. of a hell, [VP.]
kṛṣṇá (śs), m. pl. N. of the Śūdras in Śālmala-dvīpa, [VP.]
kṛṣṇá (ám), n. blackness, darkness, [i, 123, 1] and [9]
kṛṣṇá m. the black part of the eye, [ŚBr. x], [xii], [xiii], [xiv]; [Suśr.]
the black spots in the moon, [TBr. i, 2, 1, 2]
a kind of demon or spirit of darkness, [RV. iv, 16, 13]
black pepper, [L.]
black Agallochum, [L.]
iron, [L.]
lead, [L.]
antimony, [L.]
blue vitriol, [L.]
[cf. kā́rṣṇa, &c.; cf. also Russ. černyi, ‘black’.]
Nom. P. °ṣṇati, to behave or act like Kṛṣṇa, [Vop. xxi, 7.]
kṛṣṇála n. rarely [[Yājñ. i, 362]] m. (g. sidhmādi) the black berry of the plant Abrus precatorius used as a weight (the average weight being between one and two grains), [Kāṭh.]; [TBr.]; [Mn.]; [Yājñ.] Comm. on [KātyŚr.] &c.
a coin of the same weight, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]
a piece of gold of the same weight, [TS.]; [Kauś.]; [Nyāyam.]
kṛṣṇa—garbhā f. pl. the waters contained in the black cavities of the clouds [Comm. on [Nir. iv, 24]; ‘the pregnant wives of the Asura Kṛṣṇa’, [Sāy.]] [RV. i, 101, 1.]