The corpus record — Sanskrit

kṛṣṇa

Adj

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Where it lives

Bhagavad Gita 12 · 13.98/10k
Chandogya Upanisad 14 · 2.99/10k
Prasna Upanisad 1 · 1.53/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 5 · 0.66/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. krsnä-

krsnä- Adj. schwarz, dunkel (RV +); krfsna- m. schwarze Antilope (RV +), karsna- Adj. (fem. °r-) von der schwarzen Antilope herkommend (TS +), n. Fell der schwarzen Antilope (AV 11,5,6); krsna- m. N. pr. (RV +; für viele Persönlichkeiten belegt, s. MK I 184[f.); krsni- f. Bezeichnung der Nacht 398 krsnadrä- - KLP (NomSg ’ih, RV 7,71,1, 5. AiGr II 2,374,383; neben RV krsnaf., °na- n. Nacht, Dunkelheit); krsnasa- … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. krsnä-, p. 452]

2. kṛṣṇa

1. kṛṣṇa mf(ā)n. black, dark, dark-blue (opposed to śveta, śukla, rohita, and aruṇa), RV. ; AV. &c.

3. kṛṣṇa

wicked, evil, Vop. vii, 82

4. kṛṣṇa

2. kṛṣṇa Nom. P. ṣṇati, to behave or act like Kṛṣṇa , Vop. xxi, 7.

In the wild

kṛṣṇaṃ Bhagavad Gita 11.35
kṛṣṇa Bhagavad Gita 11.41
kṛṣṇa Bhagavad Gita 17.1
kṛṣṇo Bhagavad Gita 18.78
kṛṣṇa Bhagavad Gita 1.28
kṛṣṇa Bhagavad Gita 1.32

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