1. A female demon sent to kill the infant Krishna. 2. A childhood disease involving atrophy and wasting. 3. Yellow myrobalan. 4. A species of valerian.
पूतना (pūtanā) [Printed book page 0590-a] पूतना (pūtanā) pūtanā, f., N. of a female demon
(said to cause a particular disease in children; she
was sent by Kaṃsa to destroy the infant Kṛṣṇa,
and having assumed a pleasing form [according to
Hari-vaṃśa 3423, Śakunī-veśa-dhāriṇī] appeared to
the child and offered him her poisoned breast to
suck, which he seized and held till he had sucked
away her life; she is enumerated among the Mātṛs
attending upon Skanda, and associated with Śakuni
as a daughter of Bali; cf.
andha-p°, ahi-p°, kaṭa- p°, gandha-p°); a kind of disease, atrophy and
wasting in a child (ascribed to the demon Pūtanā);
yellow myrobalan, Terminalia Chebula or Citrina
(
= harītakī); a species of Valeriana (
= gandha- māṃsī).
—Pūtanā-mokṣaṇa-prastāva, as, m.,
N. of a chapter of the Brahma-vaivarta-Purāṇa.
—Pūtanāri (°nā-ari°), is, m. ‘enemy of Pūtanā,’
an epithet of Kṛṣṇa.
—Pūtanā-sūdana, as, m.
‘destroyer of Pūtanā,’ an epithet of Kṛṣṇa.
—Pū- tanā-han, ā, m. ‘slayer of Pūtanā,’ an epithet of
Kṛṣṇa.
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