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kṛṣṇa , adj. and m. n. pr. ( mgs. 1—3 = Pali kaṇha), ( 1 ) evil, wicked (in this moral sense app. only Lex. and Gr. in Skt. ): Ud xvi.14 kṛṣṇāṃ dharmāṃ ( acc. pl. ) viprahāya (= Pali Dhp. 87 kaṇhaṃ dhammaṃ vippahāya);? kṛṣṇā Divy 562.23 , see visāriṇī ; (ekānta-)kṛṣṇānāṃ karmaṇām ekānta-kṛṣṇo vipākaḥ (similarly Pali ) MSV i.48.3 etc. ; ( 2 ) as n. or epithet of Māra, the evil one : Mv ii.320.5 ; 407.16 ; more commonly Māra is called kṛṣṇabandhu ( app. not recorded in Pali ), Mvy 7385 ; LV 262.20 ; 301.3 ; 303.2 ; 341.10 ; 342.6 ; Mv ii.238.16 ; 294.15 ; 327.1 ; 335.23 ; ( 3 ) n. of a king, previous incarnation of Śākyamuni, and hero of a Jātaka ( Pali Jāt. 440 , Kaṇha- J ): LV 170.16 ( vs ), where all mss. kṛṣṇabandhu, contrary to meter and sense; Tib. nag po = kṛṣṇa, with no equivalent for bandhu; so read; ( 4 ) n. of a nāga king: Kṛṣṇa-gautamakau nāgarājau Divy 50.17, 29 ; °gautamau 50.22 ; °gautamakayor nāgarājayor 51.5 . App. a secondary interpretation of Kṛṣṇa-gotamaka (or °gaut°), q.v. , = Pali Kaṇhāgotamaka (°kaṃ ahirājakulaṃ AN ii.72.23 ; °kehi Jāt. ii.145.20 ), n. of a (single) nāga family. But see also s.v. kṛṣṇaka , 2.