{"id":64174,"date":"2024-01-05T03:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T07:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=64174"},"modified":"2024-01-05T03:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T07:40:01","slug":"sri-krishnas-male-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/sri-krishnas-male-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Krishna&#8217;s Male Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Krishna-Balarama-Gopa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-951 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Krishna-Balarama-Gopa-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Krishna-Balarama-Gopa-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Krishna-Balarama-Gopa.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Sri Krishna&#8217;s male friends<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Now Krishna\u2019s friends are described.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Balarama is the foremost of all the sakhas. He is Sri Krishna\u2019s elder brother and the killer of the well-known demon Pralamba.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Groups of Sakhas (vayasya-bhedah)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Sri Krishna\u2019s friends are divided into four groups:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(1) suhrit,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(2) sakha,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(3) priya-sakha and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">(4) priya-narma-sakha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cSri Sri Radha Krishna Ganoddesa Dipika\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/sri-sri-radha-krishna-ganoddesa-dipika-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Krishna&#8217;s male friends Now Krishna\u2019s friends are described. 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