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Chapter 58:
Krishna also
Weds Kâlindî, Mitravindâ, Satyâ,
Lakshmanâ and Bhadrâ [*]
(1)
S'rî
S'uka said: 'Once, to see the sons of Pându, went the
Supreme Personality Visible to the Eye, the Possessor of all
Opulence, to Indraprastha accompanied by Yuyudhâna
[Sâtyaki, His charioteer] and others.
(2)
Seeing Him, Mukunda, the Controller of All having arrived,
stood the heroes all up at once, as if the chief of their
senses, their life-air, had returned. (3)
The heroes embracing Acyuta by the contact with His body found
all their sins destroyed and experienced the joy of beholding
His face smiling affectionately. (4)
After offering His obeisances at the feet of Yudhishthhira and
Bhîma [since they were older] and firmly
embracing Phâlguna
[or Arjuna, being only eight days older] He next
greeted respectfully the twin brothers [Nakula and
Sahadeva, who were younger]. (5)
Sitting on an elevated seat was Krishna, slowly approached by
the newly [to the Pândavas] wed, impeccable
[Draupadî] to offer her obeisances.
(6)
Similarly was Sâtyaki welcomed, honored and seated by the
sons of Prithâ and were also the others honored and
seated around. (7)
Going to Kuntî offering His obeisances was He embraced by
her with her eyes wet of her extreme affection [see also
1.8:
18-43]; inquiring
after the welfare of her and her daughter-in-law
[Draupadî], inquired she on her turn as the
sister of His father [Vasudeva] in detail about His
relatives. (8)
With tears in her eyes and with a throat choked up in her love
for Him who shows Himself to dispel the distress, said she,
remembering the many trials and tribulations: (9)
'Only then were we faring better when by You as a protector
remembering us, Your relatives, o Krishna, my brother
[Akrûra] was sent [see 10.49].
(10)
For You, the Well-wisher and Soul of the Universe, there is
never the delusion of 'ours' and 'theirs'; nonetheless do You,
situated in the heart put an end to the sufferings of those who
remember [You] continuously [see also
B.G.
9: 29].'
(11)
Yudhishthhira
said: 'I don't know what good deeds we, of doubtful intellect,
all have performed to [be allowed to] see You, o
Supreme Controller whom the Controllers of Yoga rarely [get
to] see.'
(12)
Thus
by the king invited stayed He, the Almighty, happily during the
months of the rainy season [see also: 10.20]
for the eyes of the residents of Indraprastha generating bliss.
(13-14)
Some day [**]
in armor mounting his chariot with the monkey [or
Hanumân] flag and taking up his Gândîva
[his bow] and two inexhaustible quivers of arrows,
entered Arjuna, the slayer of enemy heroes, in order to sport
together with Krishna a large forest filled with many beasts of
prey [see also B.G.
chapter 1].
(15)
There he shot with his arrows tigers, boars, wild buffalo,
rurus [sort of antelopes], s'arabhas
[sort of deer], gavayas [sort of oxen],
rhinoceroses, black deer, rabbits and porcupines [see also
4.28:
26 and
5.26:
13].
(16)
Servants to the king carried them to be sacrificed at a special
occasion [otherwise the hunt would have been forbidden, see
9.6:
7-8] and overcome
by thirst went Bibhatsa ['the frightening one', Arjuna]
fatigued to the Yamunâ. (17)
When the two great chariotfighters took a bath there and drank
from the clear water, saw the two Krishnas [see
B.G.
10: 37] a maiden
walking charming to behold. (18)
Sent by his Friend, approached Phâlguna the exquisite
woman who had fine hips and teeth and an attractive face, and
inquired: (19)
'Who are you, to whom do you belong, o slender-waisted girl,
from where are you or what are your plans; I think you're
looking for a husband, tell me all about it, o
beauty!'
(20)
S'rî
Kâlindî said: 'I am the daughter of the demigod
Savitâ [the sungod], engaged in severe
austerities in my desire for Vishnu, the most excellent granter
of boons, as my husband [see also Gâyatrî].
(21)
I want no other husband but Him, o hero, may the Abode of
S'rî [the goddess], He the Supreme Lord Mukunda,
the shelter of the helpless, be satisfied with me.
(22)
Until I meet Acyuta, am I living in a mansion built by my
father in the Yamunâ-waters and am I thus named
Kâlindî [see also bhajan
verse 2 and
10.15:
47-52].'
(23)
So Gudâkes'a
put this before Vâsudeva who fully aware of it all lifted
her up in His chariot and drove off to king Dharma
[Yudhishthhira].
(24)
For
the sons of Prithâ had Krishna [in the past], the
moment He was asked, by Vis'vakarmâ constructed a most
amazing colorful city [Indraprastha].
(25)
The Supreme Lord residing there for the pleasure of His
devotees desired to give to Agni the Khândava
['sugar-candy'] forest [at Kurukshetra] and
became he for that purpose [burning down the forest]
Arjuna's charioteer. (26)
Pleased with that gave Agni to Arjuna a bow and a chariot with
white horses, o King, two inexhaustible quivers of arrows and
an armor impenetrable to whatever armed opposition.
(27)
Maya [the demon] delivered from the fire presented
[in gratitude] an assembly hall to his friend
[Arjuna] in which Duryodhana took the water he saw
therein for a solid floor [so that he fell in, see
10.75].
(28)
He [Krishna] by him [Arjuna] and His
well-wishers permitted to leave went back to
Dvârakâ accompanied by Sâtyaki and the rest
of His entourage [see also 1:
10].
(29)
But now married He, supremely auspicious, Kâlindî
at a day the seasons, the stars and the other luminaries were
most favorable for spreading the greatest happiness among His
people.
(30)
Vindya
and Anuvindya, two kings from Avantî [Ujjain]
subservient to Duryodhana, obstructed their sister
[Mitravindâ] who was attracted to Krishna, in her
svayamvara [choice for a husband].
(31)
Mitravindâ, the daughter of
Râjâdhidevî, His father's sister
[9.24:
28-31], was with
force, as the kings were watching, taken away by Krishna, o
King [compare 10.53].
(32)
Of
the most religious ruler of Kaus'alya [Ayodhyâ, see
9.10:
32] named
Nagnajit there was a divine daughter Satyâ who was also
called Nâgnajitî, o King. (33)
None of the kings could marry her without defeating seven
uncontrollable bulls with the sharpest horns who vicious as
they were had no tolerance for the smell of warriors.
(34)
Hearing of her being attainable for the one who had defeated
the bulls, went the Supreme Lord, the Master of the
Sâtvatas, to the Kaus'alya capital surrounded by a large
army. (35)
The lord of Kos'ala standing up [upon His arrival], and
worshipful seating Him with substantial offerings and so on,
was in return also greeted. (36)
The daughter of the king seeing that the suitor of her desire
had arrived prayed: 'May, provided that I keep to the vows, the
fire [of sacrifice] make my hopes come true; let Him,
the Husband of Ramâ
become my husband! (37)
He of whose lotuslike feet the one from the lotus
[Brahmâ] and the master of the mountain
[S'iva] together with the various rulers of the world
hold the dust on their heads, He who for His pastime with the
desire to protect the codes of religion that He Himself
instigated each time [that He's around] assumes a body,
with what can He, that Supreme Lord, by me be pleased?'
(38)
He
[Nagnajit] said to the One worshiped further the
following: 'O Nârâyana, o Lord of the Universe,
what may I who am so insignificant do for You Filled with the
Happiness of the Soul?'
(39)
S'rî
S'uka said: 'O child of the Kurus, the Supreme Lord pleased to
accept a seat, with a smile spoke to him with a voice deep as a
[rumbling] cloud. (40)
The Supreme Lord said: 'O ruler of man, for a member of the
royal order following his own dharma is to beg for something
condemned by the learned; nevertheless do I beg for your
friendship with an eye at your daughter for whom We, though,
offer nothing in return.'
(41)
The
King said: 'Who else but You, o Superior Lordship, would in
this world be a groom desirable for my daughter; You, on whose
body the Goddess resides and never leaves, are the only One
harboring the qualities! (42)
But, by us has before a condition been set, o best of the
Sâtvatas, for the purpose of testing the prowess of the
suitors of my daughter who is looking for a husband.
(43)
These seven wild bulls, o hero, are untamable; a great number
of princes have broken their limbs being defeated by them.
(44)
If they are subdued by You o descendant of Yadu, have You my
approval as the groom for my daughter, o Husband of
S'rî.' (45)
Thus hearing of the condition set, tightened the Master His
clothes and did He, turning Himself into seven, subdue them as
if it concerned a simple game. (46)
Tying them up with ropes dragged S'auri them broken in their
pride and strength behind Him like He was a boy playing with a
wooden toy. (47)
The astonished king pleased then gave Krishna his suitable
daughter who by the Supreme Lord, the Master, was accepted
according the vedic injunctions. (48)
The queens, with attaining Krishna as the dear husband of the
princess, felt the highest ecstasy upon which great jubilation
took hold of them. (49)
Conchshells, horns and drums resounded together with songs and
instrumental music; the twice-born pronounced blessings and
joyful men and women finely dressed adorned themselves with
garlands. (50-51)
As a wedding gift gave the mighty king ten thousand cows, three
thousand excellently dressed maidens with golden ornaments
around their necks, nine thousand elephants, a hundred times as
many chariots with a hundred times as many horses and to that a
hundred times as many men as there were horses.
(52)
He, the king of Kos'ala, with his heart melting of affection
had the couple seated on their chariot and then sent them off
surrounded by a large army. (53)
Hearing of this blocked the [rival] kings, in their
strength just as broken by the Yadus as the bulls were before,
incapable of accepting the frustration the road along which He
was taking His bride. (54)
They, releasing volleys of arrows, were by Arjuna, the wielder
of Gândîva who acted like a lion in his desire to
please his Friend, driven back like they were vermin.
(55)
The son of Devakî, the Supreme Lord and Chief of the
Yadus, taking the dowry with Him then arrived in
Dvârakâ where He lived happily with
Satyâ.
(56)
Bhadrâ
a princess of Kaikeya and daughter of S'rutakîrti, His
father's sister, was by her brothers headed by Santardana
[see 9.24:
38] given in
marriage to Krishna.
(57)
The
Lord also married Lakshmanâ, the daughter of the King of
Madra who was endowed with all good qualities; she was by
Krishna at her svayamvara ceremony by Him
single-handedly taken away, just like Garuda once stole the
nectar away from the demigods [see also 10.83:
17-39].
(58)
After
killing Bhaumâsura [***]
became thousands of other just as beautiful women who by him
were taken captive, Krishna's
wives.'
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