The Demons Kamsa Sent

Warned that his nemesis lived in Braj, Kamsa sent a stream of demons. Putana came disguised as a nursemaid with poison on her breast; Krishna drank both milk and life from her and granted her liberation for the motherly form she took.

Trinavarta the whirlwind snatched him into the sky and was thrown down by a weight he could not carry. Aghasura took the shape of an enormous serpent whose open mouth the cowherd boys mistook for a cave.

Each time, the village saw only a lucky escape. Krishna went back to his games, and the children never stopped following him.