The meaning of 'Adhoksaja'

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73-4 There again (Sri Hari-vamsa 158.30-32):

Resting in a cart-wheel cradle, (child) Krsna killed a cruel and

powerful demoness named Putana who, pretending to be full of maternal

affection, offered Him her breast smeared with poison. When the residents

of Vraja saw the demoness was killed, they exclaimed: "This child is born

again (adhah-aksa-ja)". For this reason, Krsna is known as adhoksaja."

75 The commentary explains: "Adhah means "beneath", "aksa" means "the

cart-wheel" and "ja" means "born again". In this way they said the word

"adhoksaja (He who is born again under the cart-wheel)."

 

>From Laghu Bhagavatamrta