Krishna

Proper noun

Krishna (countable and uncountable, plural Krishnas)

1. (Hinduism) A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.
   • The carpenter had disappeared, leaving half-finished not one but three images, as they are still today, identified as Krishna, Balarama and their sistier Subhadra.1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, Sahitya Akademi, page 76
   • She also built a temple at Turintra under Balipatna police station. In this temple three deities Balabhadra (Ananta), Jagannath (Krishna) and Subhadra were carved separately in three chlonite stones.2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events, 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 41
2. A river in southern India.
3. A district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
4. A male given name from Sanskrit.
5. A surname from Sanskrit.
   • Fittingly, I enjoyed those warm and crunchy-tender Korean rice cakes beneath slightly salty ham and a drizzle of floral honey with my colleague Priya Krishna, who first put me on to the rice-cake fundido at Haenyeo in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back in 2019.2022 October 4, Nikita Richardson, “Rice Cakes, Rice Rolls, Rice Sweets”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2022