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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

in Hindu mythology, is the principal enemy of the eastern Buddha, and seems to be identical with Deuwadet. He is represented as a child, wound about by an angry snake; although it seems not to be the child, but the snake, that is the evil daemon, for Krishna killed the monstrous snake Kalinak, as a child, by treading on its head.