balaM [ bal-ac ] 1 Strength, power, might, vigour. 2 Force, violence; as in balAt q. v. 3 An army, host, forces, troops; BavedaBIzmamadroRaM DftarAzwrabalaM kaTaM Ve. 3. 24 , 43 ; Bg. 1. 10 ; R. 16. 37. 4 Bulkiness, stoutness (of the body). 5 Body, figure, shape. 6 Semen virile, 7 Blood, 8 Gum myrrh. 9 A shoot, sprout. ( balena means ‘on the strength of’, ‘by means or virtue of’; bahubalena jitaH, vIryabalena &c.; balAt ‘perforce’, ‘forcibly’, ‘violently’, ‘against one's will’; balAnnidrA samAyAtA Pt. 1 ; hfdayamadaye tasminnevaM punarvalate balAt Gīt. 7 ). — laH 1 A crow. 2 N. of the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa; see valarAma below. 3 N. of a demon killed by Indra. Comp. — agraM excessive strength or force. — (graH) the head of an army. — aMgakaH the spring ( pb ) (Hemacandra). — aMcitA the lute of Balarāma. — awaH a kind of beam. — aDika a. surpassing in strength, of superior strength or force. — aDikaraRaM the affairs of an army. — aDyakzaH 1 a general or commander of an army; Ms. 7. 189. 2 a war-minister. — anujaH an epithet of Kṛṣṇa. — anvita a. endowed with strength, mighty, powerful. — abalaM 1 comparative strength and want of strength, relative strength and weakness; R. 17. 59. 2 relative significance and insignificance, comparative importance and unimportance; samaya eva karoti balAbalaM Śi. 6. 44. — aBraH an army in the form of a cloud. — arAtiH an epithet of Indra. — avalepaH pride of strength. — aSaH — asaH 1 consumption. 2 the phlegmatic humour ( kaPa ). 3 a swelling in the throat (which stops the passages of food). — AtmikA a kind of sun-flower ( hastiSuMqI ). — AhaH water. — utkrawa a. of mighty strength; Pt. 2. 40 ; 3. 114. — upapanna, -upeta a. endowed with strength, strong, powerful. — oGaH a multitude of troops, numerous army; Śi. 5. 2. — kara, -kft a. strengthening. — kzoBaH disturbance in the army, mutiny, revolt. — cakraM 1 dominion, sovereignty. 2 an army, a host. — ja a. produced by power. — (jaM) 1 a city-gate, gate. 2 a field. 3 grain, a heap of grain; Śi. 14. 7. 4 war, battle. 5 marrow, pith. 6 a pretty figure. — (jA) 1 the earth. 2 a handsome woman. 3 a kind of, jasmine (Arabian). — daH an ox a bullock. — darpaH pride of strength. — devaH 1 air, wind. 2 N. of the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa; see balarAma below. — dviz m. , — nizUdanaH epithets of Indra; balanizUdanamarTapatiM ca taM R. 9. 3. — nigraha a. weakening, enervating. — patiH 1 a general, commander. 2 an epithet of Indra. — prada a. giving strength, invigorating. — prasUH N. of Rohiṇī, mother of Balarāma. — Badra a. strong, powerful. — (draH) 1 a strong or powerful man. 2 a kind of ox. 3 N. of Balarāma, q. v. below. 4 the tree called loDra . 5 N. of Ananta. — (drA) a maiden. — Bid m. an epithet of Indra; Ś. 2. — Bft a. strong, powerful. — rAmaH ‘the ( pb ) strong Rāma’, N. of the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa. [He was the seventh son of Vasudeva and Devakī; but transferred to the womb of Rohiṇi to save him from falling a prey to the cruelty of Kaṃsa. He and his brother Kṛṣṇa were brought up by Nanda in Gokula. When quite young, he killed the powerful demons Dhenuka and Pralamba, and performed, like his brother, many feats of surprising strength. On one occasion Balarāma under the influence of wine, of which he was very fond, called upon the Yamunā river to come to him that he might bathe; and on his command being unheeded, he plunged his plough-share into the river and dragged the waters after him, until the river assumed a human form and asked his forgiveness. On another occasion he dragged towards himself the whole city of Hastināpura along with its walls. As Kṛṣṇa was a friend and admirer of the Pāṇḍavas, so Balarāma was of the Kauravas, as was seen in his desire of giving his sister Subhadrā to Duryodhana rather than to Arjuna; yet he declined to take any part in the great Bhāratī war either with the Pāṇḍavas or the Kauravas. He is represented as dressed in blue clothes, and armed with a ploughshare which was his most effective weapon. His wife was Revatī. He is sometimes regarded as an incarnation of the serpent Śeṣa and sometimes as the eighth incarnation of Viṣṇu; see the quotation under hala ]. — varDana a. invigorating, strengthening. — vinyAsaH array or arrangement of troops. — vyasanaM the defeat of an army. — SAlin a. strong. — sUdanaH an epithet of Indra. — sTa a. strong, powerful. — (sTaH) a warrior, soldier. — sTitiH f. 1 a camp; an encampment. 2 a royal camp. — han m. 1 an epithet of Indra. 2 of Balarāma. 3 phlegm. — hIna a. destitute of strength, weak, feeble.