N. of a sage. [Ac- cording to Viṣṇu Purāṇa, he was the tutor of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, and asked, as his preceptor's fee that his son, [Page1116-c+ 55] who was kept by a demon named Pan- chajana underneath the waters, should be restored to him. Kṛṣṇa, having undertaken to get him up, plunged in- to the sea, killed the demon, and brought back the boy to his father].