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A name of Balarāma, from the sense of drawing or attracting together. Yogamāyā draws Devakī’s seventh child from her womb into Rohiṇī’s — what appears from outside as a miscarriage — and the transfer is what the name records.

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Kṛṣṇa's AppearanceLecture → Fourteen Lokas → Balarāma → Citraketu’s Warning → Vidura and Vasudeva → The Cosmic Foam → Pradyumna and Kāmadeva → Dvārakā and Vṛndāvana → Mahā-Viṣṇu →

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