Results for "Hala (Plough)"

A rare and startling episode in which the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa, in a mood of joyful intoxication in the forest of Vṛndāvana, commands the river Yamunā to come to him — and when s…

… a and Kṛṣṇa's first plenary expansion. Wielding the plough (hala) and mace, he embodies the stabilising, agricultural, life-supporting energy that undergirds the age of Kṛṣṇa.

Two authoritative streams disagree about the eighth Daśāvatāra: one names Kṛṣṇa the avatāra with Balarāma as Ādi-Śeṣa, the other (Gauḍīya) names Kṛṣṇa Svayam Bhagavān with Balarāma…

… of the earth. Balarāma's chosen weapon is the **plough** (*hala*); he is the lord of agriculture and fertility. Anthropologically, before humanity could sustain the politically nu …