Madhusudana

Sculpture of Vishnu slaying Madhu and Kaitabha
Madhusudana (Vishnu) and Madhusudana Kāminī (Lakshmi)

Madhusudana (Sanskrit: मधुसूदन, romanized: Madhusūdana) is an epithet of Vishnu or Krishna[1] and is the 73rd[2] name in the Vishnu Sahasranama.

According to Adi Sankara's commentary on the Vishnu Sahasranama, Madhusudana means the "destroyer of Madhu".

  1. ^ "CAE Cologne Scan".
  2. ^ Vishnu Sahasranamam Archived 2008-01-10 at the Wayback Machine