Mahabalipuram Krishna's Butter ball Tamil Nadu Krishna's Butterball (also known as Vaan Irai Kal[1] and Krishna's Gigantic Butterball) is a gigantic granite boulder resting on a short incline in the historical town of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, India.[2] The boulder is approximately 6 meters high and 5 meters wide and weighs around 250 tons.[3] It stands on an approximately 1.2-meter (4 ft) base on a slope, and is said to have been at the same place for 1200 years.