Kaliya is a venomous Naga who poisoned the Yamuna River until Krishna subdued him by dancing on his hoods and banished him to the ocean.
The boy Krishna leapt into the Yamuna and danced atop the many-hooded serpent Kaliya, forcing the poisonous Naga to submit and banishing him from the river whose waters he had blackened with venom.
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