m. N. of a son of Nigh- na and father of Satyabhāmā. [He got the Syamantaka jewel from the sun and always wore it round his neck. He afterwards gave it to his brother Prasena, from whom it passed into the hands of the monkey-chief Jāmbavat, who got possession of it after having killed Prasena. Kṛṣṇa, however, over- took Jāmbavat and vanquished him in fight after a long struggle. The monkey- chief thereupon presented...