akrUra a. [ na . ta .] Not cruel. — raH N. of a Yādava, a friend and uncle of Kṛṣṇa. [It was he who induced Rāma and Kṛṣṇa to go to Mathurā and kill Kaṃsa. He told the two brothers how their father Ānaka-Dundubhi, the princess Devakī and even his own father Ugrasena had been insulted by the iniquitous demon Kaṃsa, and told them why he had been despatched to them. Kṛṣṇa consented to go and promised to slay the demon within 3 nights, which he succeeded in doing.]