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yajvan
15 October 2006, 07:31 PM
Hari Om
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Namaste,

I have seen Madhava's name two ways:
Sri Krishna and Sri Krishn [Many also write Sri Krsna]
The second way, Sri Krishn, is most notably by Swami Prakashanand Saraswati, in the USA and Sri Kripaluji Maharaj in India.
My understanding is:
Krs = dark in color - most say that of the thundercloud and to a blue hue;
Krs can also be Truth + na or bliss.

Does anyone care to comment on this...

c.smith
15 October 2006, 07:39 PM
From my experiences with ISKCON, they use Krsna meaning the all attractive (handsome, beautiful, etc) one with dark complextion.

sarabhanga
16 October 2006, 12:32 AM
:) Hari Om :)

Krishna was a son of Devaki, a student of Ghora Angirasa, and one of the authors of the Rigveda:

अयं वां कृष्णो अश्विना हवते वाजिनीवसू ।
मध्वः सोमस्य पीतये ॥
शृणुतं जरितुर्हवं कृष्णस्य स्तुवतो नरा ।
मध्वः सोमस्य पीतये ॥

ayaṁ vāṁ kṛṣṇo aśvinā havate vājinīvasū |
madhvaḥ somasya pītaye |8.85.3|
śṛṇutaṁ jariturhavaṁ kṛṣṇasya stuvato narā |
madhvaḥ somasya pītaye |8.85.4|

Here Krishna is invoking you, O Ashvins, Lords of ample wealth.
To drink the savoury Soma juice.
List, Heroes, to the singer's call, the call of Krishna lauding you,
To drink the savoury Soma juice.

kRSNa means “black, dark, or dark-blue (as opposed to shveta, shukla, rohita, and aruNa).

kRSNa means “wicked or evil”.

kRSNa (with or without pakSa) is “the dark half of the lunar month, from full to new moon”.

kRSNa indicates “the fourth or Kali-yuga”.

kRSNa is “the antelope” or “a kind of animal feeding on carrion”.

kRSNa is “the Indian cuckoo” or “a crow”.

Krishna is the name of a celebrated Avatar of the god Vishnu, or sometimes identified with Vishnu himself, as distinct from his ten Avatars or incarnations.

In the earlier legends he appears as a great hero and teacher.

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.

Vasudeva, who was a descendant of Yadu and Yayati, had two wives, Rohini and Devaki; the latter had eight sons of whom the eighth was Krishna. Kamsa, king of Mathura and cousin of Devaki, was informed by a prediction that one of these sons would kill him, and he therefore kept Vasudeva and his wife in confinement, and slew their first six children. The seventh was Balarama, who was saved by being abstracted from the womb of Devaki and transferred to that of Rohini. The eighth was Krishna, who was born with black skin and a peculiar mark on his breast. His father Vasudeva managed to escape from Mathura with the child, and favoured by the gods found a herdsman named Nanda, whose wife Yashoda had just been delivered of a son, which Vasudeva conveyed to Devaki after substituting his own in its place. Nanda with his wife Yashoda took the infant Krishna and settled first in Gokula or Vraja, and afterwards in Vridavana, where Krishna and Balarama grew up together, roaming in the woods and joining in the sports of the herdsmen's sons.

Krishna as a youth contested the sovereignty of Indra, and was victorious over that god, who descended from heaven to praise Krishna, and made him lord over the cattle.

Krishna is described as sporting constantly with the Gopis or shepherdesses, of whom a thousand became his wives (though only eight are specified) with Radha being the favourite.

Krishna built and fortified a city called Dvaraka in Gujarat, and to where he transported the inhabitants of Mathura after killing Kamsa.

Krishna had various wives besides the Gopis, and by Rukmini he had a son, Pradyumna, who is usually identified with Kamadeva.

Krishna is “one of the nine black Vasudevas”.

Krishna is “the chief of the black demons (who are the enemies of Buddha and the white demons)”.

Krishna is “an attendant in Skanda’s retinue”.

Krishna is “an Asura”.

Krishna is “a king of the Nagas”.

Krishna is “a name of Arjuna (the most renowned of the Pandu princes, so named apparently from his colour as a child), and a son of Arjuna”.

Krishna is “a name of Vyasa”.

Krishna is “a type of hell”.

kRSNau indicate “Krishna and Arjuna”.

kRSNAs are “the Shudras in Shalmaladvipa”.

kRSNA is “a kind of leech, or venomous insect”.

kRSNA is “a name of Draupadi”.

kRSNA is “a name of Durga”.

kRSNA is “one of the seven tongues of fire”.

kRSNA is “one of the mothers in Skanda’s retinue”, or “a Yogini”.

kRSNI is “night”.

kRSNam indicates “blackness or darkness, the black part of the eye, the black spots in the moon, a kind of demon or spirit of darkness, black pepper, iron, lead, antimony, or blue vitriol”.