[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c7.2675 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2675 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.2675 - **Language:** English ### [c7.2675](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2675) (1) Pūtanāmokṣa (Salvation to Pūtanā). Pūtanā, a Rākṣasī and one of the assassins deputed by Kaṁsa to search out and kill Kṛṣṇa, went to Kṛṣṇa's house disguised as a Gopa woman and fed him on her breasts. But the child extracted her life also with her breast-milk, and she assumed her original form and fell down dead. - [Previous: c7.2674](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2674) - [Next: c7.2676](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2676) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2675](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2675) · Pramāṇa