Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2677

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(3) Killed Tṛṇāvartāsura. Tṛṇāvarta, son of Tārakāsura, at the behest of Kaṁsa went to Ambāḍi in an invisible (formless) manner. Yaśodā was then breast-feeding child Kṛṣṇa, and the child appeared to gradually increase in weight. Yaśodā tried to lay the child on the bed, but had to lay him on the ground as it was too heavy for her to lift up to the bed. At once, Tṛṇāvarta, in the form of a whirl-wind, rose up to the sky carrying Kṛṣṇa along with him. Ambāḍi (Gokula) was chokingly filled with clouds of dust; the Gopālas cried out. But, Śrī Kṛṣṇa clasped round the Asura's neck and rested, and on account of the child's weight he could not rise any more. The child hardened its hands around the Asura's throat and he got killed and fell down with a thud on a rock. Yaśodā hurriedly took the child in her hands and covered it with kisses. (See under Tṛṇāvarta).