پوتنا

पूतना pūtanā, vulg. pūtnā, s.f. Name of a female demon (said to cause a particular disease in children. She was sent by Kans to destroy the infant Krishṇa; but when she offered him her poisoned breast to suck, he seized and held it till he sucked away her life);—a kind of disease, atrophy and wasting in a child (ascribed to the demon Pūtanā);—yellow myrobalan, Terminalia chebula or citrina.