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Rāmakanha
1. Rama He is the same as Baladeva(1) and brother of Kapha(1). His height was ten dhanusas. He died at the age of twelve hundred years and then took birth as a god in Bambhaloga.? He will attain liberation in the coming ascending cycle. In his previous birth he was Rāyalalia. Rāma is also known as Balabhadda(6),5 He is ninth Baladeva (2). In Tiloyapannatti (4.517) Padma is the name of this Baladeva. Rāma is also a common name for all Baladevas. For that see Rāma(9). 1. Sam. 107, Avan. 403, Tir. 578,1 3. Sth. 692. Sam. 148.
4. Sam. 158, Tir. 607. 2. Sam. 12, 158, Sth. 672. AvaN. 414, 5. Mar. 497.
Tir. 616.
2. Rāma He is identical with eighth Baladeva(2) Pauma(6). He was husband of Siyā(7)and brother of Lakkhaņa.2 In the Tiloyapannatti (4.517) he is named Rāma only and not Padma. See Pauma(6).
1. NisCu. I. p. 104, UttK. p. 43. 12. Mahan p. 130, Uttk. pp. 44-5.
3. Rāma Same as Parasurama.
1. AvaCu. I. p. 520, AcaCu. p. 49, Jiv. 89. 4. Rāma Ninth chapter of Dogiddhidasā.'
1. Sth. 755. 5. Rāma A merchant of Värirasi. He was father of Kanha(2) and Kapharāi(3).1
1. Jna. 158.
6. Rāma A merchant of Rayagin .. H was father of Rāma(2) and Rümarakkhiyā(1).
1. Jna. 158. 7. Rāma A merchant of Sāvatthi. He was father of Vasu(6) and Vasuguttā(1).
1. Ina. 158. 8. Rāma A merchant of Kosambi. He was father of Vasumitta(1) and Vasumdharā(4).
1. Jna. 158.
9. Rāma Common name for all Baladevas(2) (elder ) brothers of Vasude vas(1).1
1, AvaN. 414, 416, Vis. 1782–83. 1. Rāmakapha ( Rāmakşşņa) Eighth chapter of Nirayāvaliyā(1).
1. Nir. 1.1.
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