sentences:  Whereas Balarama is worshiped in southern regions of India as the eight avatar, with Krishna as ninth, in distinction to north India, where Krishna is worshiped as eighth and Balaram is not included as an avatar.The present era is called Kalyug.In Srimad Bhagvad the great Sage Vyasa has said that in the final phase of Kalyug Lord Vishnu shall reincarnate Himself as Kalki.