7 Demons Killed By Lord Sri Krishna
Lord Sri Krishna is also called as ‘sarvadamana’, means the one who can destroy anything and everything as per his will and no one can stop him. In this article let us see the list of Demons Killed By Lord Sri Krishna.
Lord Krishna always saves his devotees and destroys who are against Dharma.
- Putana
Putana – a rakshasi, was killed by the infant Lord Krishna at age of 7 days.
Putana herself disguises as a beautiful young lady and tries to breast feed the poisoned milk to Lord Krishna to kill him.
Lord Krishna sucks her milk and also her life through her breasts itself. - Shakatasura
Shakatasura is a ghost demon who wanted raze down Krishna under his cart. Shakatasura rode the cart from Kamsa’s palace to Vrindavan to kill lord Krishna. But Lord Krishna kicked that cart-shaped demon and killed Shakatasura. Lord Krishna was about 3 o 4 months age when he killed Shakatasura. - Trinavarta /Trunavarta
Trinavarta is a tornado, a whirlwind demon, appointed by Kamsa to kill Krishna. The Trunavarta carried away Lord Krishna and flew high into the sky to drop him from impossible heights.
When the demon carried away Lord Sri Krishna, he held tightly to the Trinavarta’s neck and became heavy, causing the demon to faint and fell down. This made the demon get hit by a rock and he died instantly. - Vatsasura
Vatsasura is a demon comes in the form of a young calf to blend in with the herd of Lord Sri Krishna’s cows. Lord Krishna recognizes this and he immediately turned around and caught the hind legs of the calf in a swift motion and whirled around till he died, then throwed on to the nearest tree. The tree and the demon crashed with a huge thud. - Bakasura
Bakasura is a monstorous bird demon. He is an evil friend of Kamsa and the brother of Putana and Aghasura. It comes in the form of a huge crane to kill Lord Sri Krishna. Bakasura swallowed up little Krishna. Krishna expanded himself that the bird could not swallow him and became so hot that the bird could not keep him in it’s mouth. Krishna pushed his beak until it snapped like a twig. - Aghasura
Aghasura is an elder brother of Putana and Bakasura. He came in the form of a great python like a huge mountain. It laid on the road keeping it’s mouth opened wide. Krishna’s friends entered its mouth by mistaking it for a mountain cavern. Then Krishna also entered it’s mouth and expanded which made the demon suffocated and die. - Arishtasura
Arishtasura is the demon came in the form of huge bull. It tore the earth with with his hooves and made the earth tremble. Lord Krishna grabbed Arishtasura by the horns and threw him back eighteen steps. The demon again tried to attack, then Krishna threw him to the ground and thrashed him like a wet cloth