Editing Balarama (section)

===Buddhism===
Balarama images have been discovered in central Indian Buddhist sites, such as with Sanchi stupas at Andher, Mehgaon and Chandna. These are dated to around the start of the common era.<ref>{{cite book|author=Julia Shaw|title=Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, c. Third Century BC to Fifth Century AD|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IUbUDAAAQBAJ |year=2016 |publisher= Taylor & Francis|isbn= 978-1-315-43263-2|pages=135–139, Figures 141–144, 150}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Nilakanth Purushottam Joshi|title=Iconography of Balarāma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5vd-lKzyFg0C&pg=PA32|year=1979|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-107-2|pages=32–57}}</ref> The Ghata Jataka, one of the Jataka Tales that form part of Buddhist scriptures, depicts Krishna as a previous birth of Buddha's disciple Sariputta and has Balarama depicted as the previous birth of one of the Buddha's disciples.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}