• pūtanā — the witch Pūtanā
  Gauḍīya emphasis: Pūtanā is granted dhātrī-pada — the post of one of Kṛṣṇa's spiritual-world nurses — because she came in a mother's costume. The mercy is total; the form, not the intent, was honoured.
• arjunau — the twin Arjuna trees
  SB 10.10 — Nalakūvara and Maṇigrīva, two yakṣa princes cursed by Nārada to be trees, redeemed when Kṛṣṇa's mortar-rope split them open. The Gauḍīya read this as Kṛṣṇa's freeing of the proud — the same līlā that liberates every soul stuck in the 'tree' of bodily identification.
• keśī — the horse demon, Keśī
  The horse-asura killed in SB 10.36, named for his terrifying mane. His death sealed Kaṁsa's last hope before this very arena-day, and from this killing Kṛṣṇa carries the name Keśi-niṣūdana.
• dhenukaḥ — the jackass demon, Dhenuka
  In SB 10.15, Dhenuka attacked Balarāma in the Tālavana grove; Balarāma whirled him by the hind legs and threw him into the palm-trees, releasing the whole forest for the gopas. The Gauḍīya reading: the asses of dull-headed materialism are subdued by Balarāma — guru-tattva clears the field before mādhurya enters.

• BKG SB 10-43-25 - Unique feature of the demons in Vrndavan - 2023-03-09 New Goloka
  His Holiness Bir Krishna Goswami· 2023-03-09· English

The Mathurā citizens roll-call Kṛṣṇa's Vraja victories — Pūtanā, the whirlwind, the twin Arjunas, Śaṅkhacūḍa, Keśī, Dhenuka — as one breath of kīrtana. Each name is a līlā; together they are the certificate of avatāra. Bhakti-saṁskāra works exactly so: the names accumulate until denial is impossible.