Trinavarta

In the Bhagavata Purāṇa childhood cycle, Trinavarta is one of several asuras dispatched by Kamsa to kill the infant Krishna. Some traditional retellings and later Purānic material (e.g., traditions recorded in devotional commentaries and the Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa tradition) add background motifs about earlier births and curses (for example, a tradition linking the asura's prior life to a cursed king), but the canonical episode situates him functionally as an asura-sent adversary within Krishna’s early lîla.

During the episode Trinavarta assumes the form of a violent whirlwind or tornado that envelops Gokulam in dust and darkness and carries the infant Krishna aloft; descriptions emphasize a swirling cloud of sand and a spinning form. In narrative aftermaths and devotional retellings a physical corpse is reported to appear on the ground after Krishna crushes him, with some accounts adding graphic detail (e.g., smashed limbs, displaced eye-sockets) in later poetic and devotional versions.

Textual accounts attribute to Trinavarta the power to become or generate a violent whirl-wind/tornado capable of lifting and carrying beings and objects high into the sky; some verse translations and devotional retellings describe an ascent of vast/mythic distance (a cited rendering speaks of 'eight hundred thousand miles' in one translation). He was dispatched with the explicit goal of killing Krishna and envelops the village in dust and darkness while abducting the child. His limit in the narrative is that Krishna causes himself to become unbearably heavy; the asura cannot sustain the burden, is choked/halted and brought down, and is physically crushed to death.