Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2339

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.2339

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c7.2339

KEŚI II. A follower of Kaṃsa. This Asura, on the instruction of Kaṃsa, went to Ambāḍi (Gokula) taking the form of horse, to kill Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Śrī Kṛṣṇa killed Keśi. It is seen in the Bhāgavata (Malayālam) that Śrī Kṛṣṇa got the name Keśava because he had killed Keśi. (Skandha 10, Keśivadha).

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Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit