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What does Krishna mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Hinduism) A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism. Krishna is often depicted as a young cowherd boy with a dark or blue complexion playing a flute (as in the Bhagavata Purana) or a youthful prince giving philosophical direction and guidance (as in the Bhagavad Gita) He is the divine speaker of the Bhagavad Gita and the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
  2. A river in southern India.
  3. A district in South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
  4. A male given name and a surname used in India.
Name
  1. A male given name of Sanskrit origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Dark, black.
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For one thing, devotional cults were also popular within India, and the worship of the Hindu god Krishna antedates Christ by several centuries.
After his victory Krishna returned very early in the morning and was bathed and massaged with scented oils.
If the Gujarat Chief Minister does, will the Hyderabad kotwal, Krishna Rao, arrest him?
Surprisingly, perhaps, Vidyapati himself was not a Krishna bhakta, not even a Vaishnava.
Kala Krishna Dance was not in his blood neither did he know anything about it.
An icon of a crawling Krishna in a silver cradle or leaf is placed in the mandapam.

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