BALARĀMA is a Hindu god, the elder brother of the god Kṛṣṇa. He is sometimes considered as the third of the three Rāmas, and thus the eighth avatāra of Viṣṇu; at other times he appears as an...

the elder brother of . He shared in some of his adventures and is regarded as an incarnation of the cosmic snake or a partial incarnation of . In some parts of India he replaces the Buddha in the icons of the ten major incarnations of...

(‘the powerful Rāma’) A god of agriculture whose cult reaches back to the very earliest times in India. His attribute is the plough, and he was regarded as the elder brother of →...

Balarama (बलराम) (phonetically Balarāma), also known as Baladeva, Balabhadra and Halayudha, is the elder brother of the divine being, Krishna from the Puranic texts of Hinduism. Within Vaishnavism and a number of South Indian, Hindu...

9780773457232 Hindu and Jain mythology of Balarama; change and continuity in an early Indian cult. Vemsani, Lavanya. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2006 223 pages $109.95 Hardcover BL1105 In the various cults that later became Vaisnavism,...