[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.1510 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1510 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1510 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1510](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1510) REVATĪ. Daughter of King Raivata and wife of Bala-rāma. She was so beautiful that her father, thinking no one upon earth worthy of her, repaired to the god Brahmā to consult him about a husband. Brahmā delivered a long discourse on the glories of Vishnu, and directed Raivata to proceed to Dwārakā, where a portion of Vishnu was incarnate in the person of Bala-rāma. Ages had elapsed while Raivata was in heaven without his knowledge. When he returned to earth, “he found the race of men dwindled in stature, reduced in vigour, and enfeebled in intellect.” He went to Bala-rāma and gave him Revatī, but that hero, “beholding the damsel of excessively lofty height, he shortened her with the end of his ploughshare, and she became his wife.” She had two sons. Revatī is said to have taken part with her husband in his drinking bouts. - [Previous: c5.1509](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1509) - [Next: c5.1511](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1511) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1510](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1510) · Pramāṇa