Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.169

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2. Baladeva It is a class-name. A Baldeva is a (elder) brother of a Vāsudeva(1).¹ He is also known as Bala(14).² He is lord of the half of the Bharaha(2) country.³ He wields a ploughshare (hala), a pestle (muśala) and a bow (Kanaka, i.e. arrow).⁴ He is white by complexion.⁵ He also bears 108 auspicious marks and has super-powers.⁶ Baladevas never take birth in low familes.⁷ Their mothers see any four of the fourteen great dreams.⁸ There appear four Baladevas at the minimum and thirty at the maximum in the Jambuddīva.⁹ In the Bharaha(2) as well as Eravaya(1) regions nine Baladevas are born in every cycle and that also in Dussama-susamā.¹⁰ They do not make any nidāna (resolve) in their previous births. They generally attain liberation.¹¹ They wear green clothes.¹² The nine Baladevas born in the Bharaha region in this Osappiṇī¹³ are: 1. Ayala(6), 2. Vijaya(11), 3. Bhadda(13), 4. Suppabha(1), 5. Sudamsaṇa(7), 6. Āṇaṃda(1) 7. Naṃdaṇa(1), 8. Pauma(6), and 9. Rāma(1). All of them belonged to the Goyama(2) gotra except Rāma who belonged to the Kāsava(1) gotra.¹⁴ The names of the nine would-be Baladevas of Bharaha(1) are: Jayaṃta(6), Vijaya(12), Bhadda(2), Suppabha(3), Sudamsaṇa(2), Pauma(5) and Saṃkarisaṇa.¹⁵ The Titthogālī mentions Kaṇha(8), Jayaṃta and Jiya as the first three would-be Baladevas.¹⁶