Krishna (i.e. the swarthy one), the man-god, or god-man, viewed as the 8th and final incarnation or avatar of Vishnu (q.v.), in whose manifestation the latter first reveals himself as supreme divinity, being, as the Theosophist might say, his Mahatma. See Theosophy.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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