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Krishna

eighth avatar of Vishnu, 1793, from Sanskrit krshnah, literally "the Black One," from PIE *kers-no-, suffixed form of root *kers- "dark, dirty" (source also of Old Church Slavonic crunu, Russian coron, Serbo-Croatian crn, Czech cerny, Old Prussian kirsnan "black," Lithuanian keršas "black and white, variegated").

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Definitions of Krishna from WordNet

Krishna (n.)
8th and most important avatar of Vishnu; incarnated as a handsome young man playing a flute;
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