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Wherever his equally powerful son Akrūra stays, Lord Indra will provide sufficient rain. Indeed, that place will be free of miseries and untimely deaths.
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- ukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thus enlightened by Lord Balarāma, slender Rukmiṇī forgot her depression and steadied her mind by spiritual intelligence.
- At that time, O King, there was great rejoicing in all the homes of Yadupurī, whose citizens loved only Kṛṣṇa, chief of the Yadus.
- The kings and their daughters were totally astonished to hear the story of Rukmiṇī’s abduction, which was being glorified in song everywhere.
- He took birth in the womb of Vaidarbhī from the seed of Lord Kṛṣṇa and received the name Pradyumna. In no respect was He inferior to His father.
- A powerful fish swallowed Pradyumna, and this fish, along with others, was caught in a huge net and seized by fishermen.
- The fishermen presented that extraordinary fish to Śambara, who had his cooks bring it to the kitchen, where they began cutting it up with a butcher knife.
- After a short time, this son of Kṛṣṇa—Pradyumna—attained His full youth. He enchanted all women who gazed upon Him.
- Now kill this dreadful Śambara, Your formidable enemy. Although he knows hundreds of magic spells, You can defeat him with bewildering magic and other techniques.
- Pradyumna approached Śambara and called him to battle, hurling intolerable insults at him to foment a conflict.
- Drawing His sharp-edged sword, Pradyumna forcefully cut off Śambara’s head, complete with red mustache, helmet and earrings.
- Seeing Pradyumna, sweet-voiced, dark-eyed Rukmiṇī remembered her lost son, and her breasts became moist out of affection.
- Yes, He must be the same child I bore in my womb, since I feel great affection for Him and my left arm is quivering.
- Lord Savitā has come to see You, O Lord of the universe. He is blinding everyone’s eyes with his intensely effulgent rays.
- King Satrājit entered his opulent home, festively executing auspicious rituals. He had qualified brāhmaṇas install the Syamantaka jewel in the house’s temple room.
- Once Satrājit’s brother, Prasena, having hung the brilliant jewel about his neck, mounted a horse and went hunting in the forest.
- In the forest they found Prasena and his horse, both killed by the lion. Further on they found the lion dead on a mountainside, slain by Ṛkṣa [Jāmbavān].
- Unaware of His true position and thinking Him an ordinary man, Jāmbavān angrily began fighting with the Supreme Lord, his master.
- The fight went on without rest for twenty-eight days, the two opponents striking each other with their fists, which fell like the cracking blows of lightning.
- Thus addressed, Jāmbavān happily honored Lord Kṛṣṇa by offering Him his maiden daughter, Jāmbavatī, together with the jewel.
- When Devakī, Rukmiṇī-devī, Vasudeva and the Lord’s other relatives and friends heard that He had not come out of the cave, they all lamented.
- Hanging his head in great shame, Satrājit took the gem and returned home, all the while feeling remorse for his sinful behavior.
- Having thus intelligently made up his mind, King Satrājit personally arranged to present Lord Kṛṣṇa with his fair daughter and the Syamantaka jewel.
- As the women of Satrājit’s palace screamed and helplessly wept, Śatadhanvā took the jewel and left, like a butcher after he has killed some animals.
- When Satyabhāmā saw her dead father, she was plunged into grief. Lamenting “My father, my father! Oh, I am killed!” she fell unconscious.
- I wish to visit King Videha, who is most dear to Me.” O King, having said this, Lord Balarāma, the beloved descendant of Yadu, entered the city of Mithilā.
- Wherever his equally powerful son Akrūra stays, Lord Indra will provide sufficient rain. Indeed, that place will be free of miseries and untimely deaths.
- After the almighty Lord had shown the Syamantaka jewel to His relatives, thus dispelling the false accusations against Him, He returned it to Akrūra.
- Kṛṣṇa Marries Five Princesses
- The heroes embraced Lord Acyuta, and the touch of His body freed them of sin. Looking at His affectionate, smiling face, they were overwhelmed with joy.
- King Yudhiṣṭhira said: O supreme controller, I do not know what pious deeds we fools have done so that we can see You, whom the masters of yogic perfection rarely see.
- Requested by the King to stay with them, the almighty Lord remained happily in Indraprastha during the months of the rainy season, giving joy to the eyes of the city’s residents.
- After the two Kṛṣṇas bathed there, they drank the river’s clear water. The great warriors then saw an attractive young girl walking nearby.
- I am known as Kālindī, and I live in a mansion my father built for me within the water of the Yamunā. There I will stay until I meet Lord Acyuta.
- When the demon Maya was saved from the fire by his friend Arjuna, Maya presented him with an assembly hall, in which Duryodhana would later mistake water for a solid floor.
- My dear King, Lord Kṛṣṇa forcibly took away Princess Mitravindā, the daughter of His aunt Rājādhidevī, before the eyes of the rival kings.
- But to ascertain the proper husband for my daughter, O chief of the Sātvatas, we previously set a condition to test the prowess of her suitors.
- These seven wild bulls are impossible to tame, O hero. They have defeated many princes, breaking their limbs.
- Lord Śauri tied up the bulls, whose pride and strength were now broken, and pulled them with ropes just as a child playfully pulls wooden toy bulls.
- The King of Kośala, his heart melting with affection, had the bride and groom seated on their chariot, and then he sent them on their way surrounded by a great army.
- Lord Kṛṣṇa also acquired thousands of other wives equal to these when He killed Bhaumāsura and freed the beautiful maidens the demon was holding captive.
- Obeisances unto You, the Supreme Lord Vāsudeva, Viṣṇu, the primeval person, the original seed. Obeisances unto You, the omniscient one.
- There Lord Kṛṣṇa saw sixteen thousand royal maidens, whom Bhauma had taken by force from various kings.
- The women became enchanted when they saw that most excellent of males enter. In their minds they each accepted Him, who had been brought there by destiny, as their chosen husband.
- Then the imperishable Supreme Personality, assuming a separate form for each bride, duly married all the princesses simultaneously, each in her own palace.
- From her maidservant’s hand Goddess Rukmiṇī took a yak-hair fan with a jeweled handle, and then she began to worship her master by fanning Him.
- Terrified of these kings, O lovely-browed one, We took shelter in the ocean. We have become enemies of powerful men, and We practically abandoned Our royal throne.
- O fine-browed lady, women are usually destined to suffer when they stay with men whose behavior is uncertain and who pursue a path not approved by society.
- We have no material possessions, and We are dear to those who similarly have nothing. Therefore, O slender one, the wealthy hardly ever worship Me.
- Now you should definitely accept a more suitable husband, a first-class man of the royal order who can help you achieve everything you want, both in this life and the next.
- We care nothing for wives, children and wealth. Always satisfied within Ourselves, We do not work for body and home, but like a light, We merely witness.
COMMENTARY
Thinking that “Even though Kṛṣṇa is omniscient, He is acting like this to fool Me,” Balarāma concealed His anger because He was supposed to be bewildered by Kṛṣṇa, and spoke this verse. Balarāma said, “Now I would like visit Mithilā. You return to Dvārakā and give the jewel to Your beloved, but I will stay here.”
|| 10.57.25 ||
taṁ dṛṣṭvā sahasotthāya maithilaḥ prīta-mānasaḥ
arhayāṁ āsa vidhi-vad arhaṇīyaṁ samarhaṇaiḥ
TRANSLATION
The King of Mithilā immediately rose from his seat when he saw Lord Balarāma approaching. With great love the King honored the supremely worshipable Lord by offering Him elaborate worship, as stipulated by scriptural injunctions.
COMMENTARY
Balarāma was respected by the king.
|| 10.57.26 ||
uvāsa tasyāṁ katicin mithilāyāṁ samā vibhuḥ
mānitaḥ prīti-yuktena janakena mahātmanā
tato ’śikṣad gadāṁ kāle dhārtarāṣṭraḥ suyodhanaḥ
TRANSLATION
The almighty Lord Balarāma stayed in Mithilā for several years, honored by His affectionate devotee Janaka Mahārāja. During that time Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s son Duryodhana learned from Balarāma the art of fighting with a club.
|| 10.57.27 ||
keśavo dvārakām etya nidhanaṁ śatadhanvanaḥ
aprāptiṁ ca maṇeḥ prāha priyāyāḥ priya-kṛd vibhuḥ
TRANSLATION
Lord Keśava arrived in Dvārakā and described the demise of Śatadhanvā and His own failure to find the Syamantaka jewel. He spoke in a way that would please His beloved, Satyabhāmā.
COMMENTARY
Keśava comforted his beloved (priyāyāḥ priya-kṛd) by affectionately saying, “I was unable to revive your father because he had a short lifespan, but I have killed his murderer with My own hands.”
|| 10.57.28 ||
tataḥ sa kārayām āsa kriyā bandhor hatasya vai
sākaṁ suhṛdbhir bhagavān yā yāḥ syuḥ sāmparāyikīḥ
TRANSLATION
Lord Kṛṣṇa then had the various funeral rites performed for His deceased relative, Satrājit. The Lord attended the funeral along with well-wishers of the family.
COMMENTARY
Kṛṣṇa personally performed the funeral rites for His relative (bandhor), Satrājit.
|| 10.57.29 ||
akrūraḥ kṛtavarmā ca śrutvā śatadhanor vadham
vyūṣatur bhaya-vitrastau dvārakāyāḥ prayojakau
TRANSLATION
When Akrūra and Kṛtavarmā, who had originally incited Śatadhanvā to commit his crime, heard that he had been killed, they fled Dvārakā in terror and took up residence elsewhere.
COMMENTARY
Akrūra and Kṛtavarmā quickly fled from Dvārakā and went somewhere else, because they had inspired (prayojakau) Śatadhanvā to murder Satrājit.
|| 10.57.30 ||
akrūre proṣite ’riṣṭāny āsan vai dvārakaukasām
śārīrā mānasās tāpā muhur daivika-bhautikāḥ
TRANSLATION
In Akrūra’s absence ill omens arose in Dvārakā, and the citizens began to suffer continually from physical and mental distresses, as well as from disturbances caused by higher powers and by creatures of the earth.
|| 10.57.31 ||
ity aṅgopadiśanty eke vismṛtya prāg udāhṛtam
muni-vāsa-nivāse kiṁ ghaṭetāriṣṭa-darśanam
TRANSLATION
Some men proposed [that the troubles were due to Akrūra’s absence], but they had forgotten the glories of the Supreme Lord, which they themselves had so often described. Indeed, how can calamities occur in a place where the Personality of Godhead, the residence of all the sages, resides?
COMMENTARY
Due to his offense of taking Kṛṣṇa away from the Vrajagopīs, Akrūra was forced to live in Kāśī (Benares) among Kṛṣṇa’s enemies to suffer in separation from his worshipable Lord. As many years as Baladeva stayed in Mithilā, Akrūra stayed in Kāśī. Hearing how Akrūra was giving charity to many brāhmaṇas and doing sacrifices on a gold altar, the Dvārakāvāsīs gossiped that Kṛṣṇa, considering Akrūra a rival, had sent him into exile. Though Balarāma, Rukmiṇī and others did not believe the rumors, to dispel this new and in-credible stain on His reputation, Kṛṣṇa created various calamities in Dvārakā, thus inducing the citizens to call for Akrūra’s return, which Kṛṣṇa then ordered.
After stating the sages’ proposition that Dvārakā was suffering due to the influence of time mentioned in verse thirty, Śukadeva Gosvāmī refutes it in verse thirty-one. Some (eke) munis such as Vaiśampā-yana Ṛṣi, forgetting their previous words (prāg udāhṛtam) in praise of Kṛṣṇa, began to speak. The scriptures state that if even a single sage is living in a town, then by his influence there can be no calamities there. Therefore, what calamity can possibly arise in the abode where Kṛṣṇa, the shelter of all sages (muni-vāsa), is personally residing?
|| 10.57.32 ||
deve ’varṣati kāśīśaḥ śvaphalkāyāgatāya vai
sva-sutāṁ gāṇdinīṁ prādāt tato ’varṣat sma kāśiṣu
TRANSLATION
[The elders said:] Previously, when Lord Indra had withheld rain from Kāsī [Benares], the king of that city gave his daughter Gāndinī to Śvaphalka, who was then visiting him. It soon rained in the kingdom of Kāśī.
COMMENTARY
Once when Indra (deve) withheld the rain from Kāśī, the king gave his daughter to Akrūra’s father (Śvaphalka) in marriage. Then rain came. In his time of difficulty Akrūra went to Kāśī because of his relationship with his maternal grandfather, the King of Kāśī.
|| 10.57.33 ||
tat-sutas tat-prabhāvo ’sāv akrūro yatra yatra ha
devo ’bhivarṣate tatra nopatāpā na mārīkāḥ
TRANSLATION
|| 10.57.34 ||
iti vṛddha-vacaḥ śrutvā naitāvad iha kāraṇam
iti matvā samānāyya prāhākrūraṁ janārdanaḥ
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