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or because they might have had no doubt about the superhuman ability of Kṛishṇa and Balarāma, which has been admitted on so many other occasions in the *Śrīmad-bhāgavata* itself. But though equally mythological in character, this point has struck both the *Vishṇu-purāṇa* and the *Harivaṁśa* wherein an explanatory note is purposely added. In the former it is stated that it was wonderful (*adbhuta*) for Kṛishṇa and Balarāma to learn sixty-four arts in sixty-four days, while in the latter they are stated to have been gifted with the power of remembering things by hearing only once (*śrutidhara*). The explanation of the *Harivaṁśa* is more expressly admitted in the *Śrīmad-bhāgavata*, where it is stated that they retained everything by simply listening only once.¹