balarāma | बलराम | balarAma
bala—rāma | बल—राम | m. N. of the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa and third of the Rāmas (regarded as the 8th Avatāra of Viṣṇu, sometimes as an incarnation of the great serpent Śeṣa or An-anta; he is also called Bala, Bala-deva, Bala-bhadra, and Halāyudha, cf. IW. 332 &c.), MBh.; Pur.