Balarama Kills Dhenukasura, Folio from a Harivamsha ( Lineage of Hari, Vishnu ), ca 1585-1590

The account in the Harivamsha is shorter but agrees closely with them.

Nanda () or Nandagopa, according to the Harivamsha and the Puranas, was the head of the gopas ( a tribe of cowherds referred as Holy Gwals ). It is said that Nand Baba owned 9 lakhs of cows.

According to Mahabharata, Purana, Harivamsha Vanga was one of the adopted sons of king Vali who founded the Vanga kingdom.

Various narratives related to Balarama are found in the Mahabharata, the Harivamsha, the Bhagavata Purana and several other Puranas.

In Harivamsha 417ff, the names of the Rishis of each manvantara are enumerated.

But the Harivamsha, the Brahma Purana and the Shiva Purana mention Raghu as son of Dilīpa and Dirghavahu as his epithet.

According to the Mahabharata, a number of Puranas and the Harivamsha Vanga was one of the adopted sons of king Vali who founded the Vanga Kingdom.

According to Bhagavati Sutra and Harivamsha Purana, Mahavir started his earliest preaching of Dharma at Nalanda, Rajgriha, Paniya Bhumi and Siddharthagrama.

Some of the Puranas ( e. g. Brahmanda, Vayu, Brahma and Harivamsha ) describe the Yaudheyas as the descendants of Ushinara and Nrigu.

* The author of Harivamsha Purana in the 8th century.

According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele (" cloud "), which in the Olympian telling Zeus invented to look like Hera.

The Yngling " Fairhair dynasty " lineage introduced in Hversu Noregr byggðist (" How Norway was settled ") and the Orkneyinga and Heimskringla sagas suggests a line of Rollo going back to Fornjót, the primeval " king " who " reigned over " Finland and Kvenland.

These would be separated by the Great Basin, with the Pacific coastal lineage (" California " Scrub Jay ) and the Island Scrub Jay, as well as the inland lineage (" Woodhouse's " Scrub Jay ) and the Florida Scrub Jay being sister species.

They are thus of the Raghuvamsa (" dynasty of Raghu ") lineage.

* Tupaia ( navigator ) — an 18th Century Tahitian navigator, arioi (" high priest ") of local noble lineage, who accompanied Lt. James Cook as navigational guide on the latter's famous first voyage of discovery in HM Bark Endeavour.

The 77th Sustainment Brigade is a unit of the United States Army that inherited the lineage of the 77th Infantry Division (" Statue of Liberty "), which served with distinction in World War I and World War II.

Sons of nobles were trained at the calmecac (" lineage house ") and received sophisticated training in warfare as well as in general courtly subjects such as astronomy, calendrics, rhetorics, poetry and religion.

A praśasti ( literally " praise "), composed in 753 CE on the dynastic eulogy in the Kasakadi ( Kasakudi ) plates, by the Pallava Trivikrama, traces the Pallava lineage from creation through a series of mythic progenitors, and then praises the dynasty in terms of two similes hinged together by triple use of the word avatara (" descent "), as below: From descended the powerful, spotless Pallava dynasty, which resembled a partial incarnation of Visnu, as it displayed unbroken courage in conquering the circle of the world ... and which resembled the descent of the Ganges as it purified the whole world.

From the founding of Drikung Thil Monastery in 1179 to the present day, the Drikung Kagyu lineage has been led by a succession of spiritual heads (" throne-holders ").

There is no evidence to support the notion that tarot has an Egyptian lineage, but in the credulous stir that followed, Etteilla responded with another book, Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées Tarots (" How to Entertain Yourself With the Deck of Cards Called Tarot ") in 1785.

Burdak is an Agni kula (" Fire Born ") lineage Jat clan included in Chauhans.

According to 13th generation lineage Tai He (" Great Harmony ") Wudangquan Master Fan Ke Ping (), a collector of rare Kung fu manuals, Zhou Tong, the archery teacher of General Yue Fei, practiced Shènzi bādà Qígōng (-" Testicle Eight Outstanding Techniques ").

* " Linia hetmańska " (" Srebrna Pilawa "), in English: " Hetman's lineage " (" Silver Pilawa ").

* " Linia Prymasowa " (" Złota Pilawa "), in English: " Prymate's lineage " (" Golden Pilawa ")

It finds its origins in modernist influences on the traditions of Burma, Laos, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and the innovations and popularisations by Theravāda teachers as Mahasi Sayadaw (" New Burmese Method "), Ledi Sayadaw ( the Ledi lineage ), Anagarika Munindra, and Ajahn Chah ( Thai Forest Tradition ), as well as nonsectarian derivatives from those traditions such as the movement led by S. N. Goenka ( with his co-teacher wife Illaichi Devi ) who studied with teacher Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

This is now no longer favoured ; as more recent work show that they form a distinct lineage of uncertain relationships ; all that can be said at present with reasonable certainty is that the Petroicidae are neither Passerida (" advanced " songbirds ) nor a very ancient songbird group.

The Eight Great Lingpas () were eight important tertons or revealers of hidden religious treasures (" terma ") in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

It first developed within the Sakya monastic lineage, where it was known as ka-shi (" four subjects ") or ka-chu (" ten subjects ").

The Malay Muslims in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia have adapted the Chinese custom of handing out money gifts as part of their Eid al-Fitr (" Hari Raya Aidilfitri " in the Malay language ) celebrations, by issuing token gifts of money in green packets.

Additionally, in Indonesia Idul Fitri has a legally mandated salary bonus for all employees, known as Tunjangan Hari Raya ( THR ) as enforced by Indonesia's Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration (" Kementerian Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi ").

Paramhansa Yogananda was an early proponent of kirtan in the west, chanting Guru Nanak Dev Ji's Hey Hari Sundara (" Oh God Beautiful ") with 3, 000 people at Carnegie Hall in 1923.

In summer 2007, deeply moved by the Kornati fire tragedy, in which 13 volunteer firemen perished, composed in the spur of the moment the song " Ovo nije kraj " (" This Is Not the End "), gathered under the name Split Star a group of famous singers ( Oliver Dragojević, Marko Perković Thompson, Tedi Spalato, Dražen Zečić, Giuliano, Alen Nižetić, Hari Rončević ) from the Split area, that performed it with him in a music video, all of this in less than fifteen days.

The Sharabha Upanishad mentions that shara means jiva (" soul ") and Hari ( Vishnu ) is gleaming in the form of Sharabha, and that Hari has manifested as Sharabha who is capable of granting moksha ( salvation ).

The leader is only a spokesperson for the group when it has to deal with other groups (" international relations ") but has no inside authority, and may be violently removed if he attempts to abuse this position.

From Latin animātiō, " the act of bringing to life "; from animō (" to animate " or " give life to ") +-ātiō (" the act of ").

During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.

If the appellate court does find a legal defect in the decision " below " ( i. e., in the lower court ), it may " modify " the ruling to correct the defect, or it may nullify (" reverse " or " vacate ") the whole decision or any part of it.

It may, in addition, send the case back (" remand " or " remit ") to the lower court for further proceedings to remedy the defect.

The famous Latin Responsa Prudentium (" answers of the learned ones ") were the accumulated views of many successive generations of Roman lawyers, a body of legal opinion which gradually became authoritative.

Dmitri Mendeleev claimed he arranged his tables in order of atomic weight (" Atomgewicht ") However, in deference to the observed chemical properties, he violated his own rule and placed tellurium ( atomic weight 127. 6 ) ahead of iodine ( atomic weight 126. 9 ).

B attempts to falsify A's conditional statement (" if Republican then against gun control ") by providing evidence he believes would contradict its implication.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

The term " android " can mean either one of these, while a cyborg (" cybernetic organism " or " bionic man ") would be a creature that is a combination of organic and mechanical parts.

Euclid ’ s algorithm appears as Proposition II in Book VII (" Elementary Number Theory ") of his Elements.

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.

One example is the Banach – Tarski paradox which says that it is possible to decompose (" carve up ") the 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces and, using only rotations and translations, reassemble the pieces into two solid balls each with the same volume as the original.

The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation angered both Peace Democrats (" Copperheads ") and War Democrats, but energized most Republicans.

This had the effect of inculcating the principle of lex orandi, lex credendi (" the law of prayer is the law of belief ") as the foundation of Anglican identity and confession.

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

The theme of angst is portrayed in Mahler's Symphony No. 6 (" The Tragic ") and in Alban Berg's poignant Violin Concerto dedicated, " To the memory of an angel ".

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.

If one also removes the second postulate (" a line can be extended indefinitely ") then elliptic geometry arises, where there is no parallel through a point outside a line, and in which the interior angles of a triangle add up to more than 180 degrees.

Some synaptic junctions appear partway along an axon as it extends — these are called en passant (" in passing ") synapses.