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ADITI, AND THE ADITYAS.

appeased, he acknowledged that he had misjudged his brother, and returned to his home at Dwaraka.

As the two brothers died about the same time an account of Balarāma's end will be found in the chapter descriptive of Krishna.

9. The Buddha Avatara.

This incarnation of Vishnu is “ originally foreign to the cycle of the Avatāras of Vishnu, and therefore is

BUDDHA.

only briefly alluded to in some of Purānas. Where this is done, the intention must have been to effect a compromise between Brāhmanism and Buddhism, by trying to represent the latter religion as not irreconcilably antagonistic to the former.”[1] Colonel Kennedy,[2]

  1. Goldstücker, Chambers's Cyclopædia.
  2. "Hindu Mythology," p. 248.