Bhagavatapurana 10.61
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Śrī Śuka said:
Each one of those women bore ten sons to Kṛṣṇa, / in no way inferior to their father in all personal excellences.
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Seeing Acyuta staying at home and never leaving, / the princesses each thought him to be their own dearest [husband], for as women they did not know the truth about him.
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By his charming lotus-calyx face, his long arms, his eyes, / his affectionate smiles, loving glances, and sweet conversation,
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the women, enchanted by the Lord, were unable to conquer / the mind of the all-powerful Lord by their own seductive charms.
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Skilled in amorous commands sent by the circles of their eyebrows, / which captivated his feeling displayed in slight smiling glances,
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Skilled in amorous commands sent by the circles of their eyebrows, / which captivated his feeling displayed in slight smiling glances,
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even sixteen thousand wives were unable to agitate / his senses with the arrows of love or with their feminine gestures.
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Having thus attained as their husband the Lord of Ramā, / whose path even Brahmā and the others do not know,
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Having thus attained as their husband the Lord of Ramā, / whose path even Brahmā and the others do not know,
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those women worshiped him with ever-increasing joy, characterized by loving / smiling glances, eagerness for fresh union, and other charms.
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With rising to greet him, offering excellent seats, worship, washing his feet, / betel leaves, resting him, fanning, fragrant pastes, garlands,
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With rising to greet him, offering excellent seats, worship, washing his feet, / betel leaves, resting him, fanning, fragrant pastes, garlands,
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dressing his hair, arranging his bed, bathing, and presenting gifts, / though having hundreds of handmaidens, they rendered personal service to the almighty Lord.
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Of those wives of Kṛṣṇa who each had ten sons, / I shall recount to you the sons, beginning with Pradyumna, of the eight principal queens mentioned earlier.
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Cārudeṣṇa, Sudeṣṇa, the heroic Cārudeha, / Sucāru, Cārugupta, and likewise another, Bhadracāru,
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Cārucandra, Vicāru, and Cāru as the tenth: / these [sons] born to Hari by Rukmiṇī, led by Pradyumna, were in no way inferior to their father.
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Bhānu, Subhānu, Svarbhānu, Prabhānu, likewise Bhānumat, / Candrabhānu, Bṛhadbhānu, and Atibhānu as the eighth,
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Śrībhānu, and Pratibhānu were the ten sons of Satyabhāmā. / Sāmba, Sumitra, Purujit, Śatajit, Sahasrajit,
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Vijaya, Citraketu, Vasumat, Draviḍa, and Kratu: / these indeed were the sons of Jāmbavatī, headed by Sāmba, dear to their father.
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Vīra, Candra, Aśvasena, Citragu, Vegavat, Vṛṣa, / Āma, Śaṅku, Vasu, and the glorious Kunti were the sons of Nāgnajitī.
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Śruta, Kavi, Vṛṣa, Vīra, Subāhu, Bhadra, Ekala, / Śānti, Darśa, and Pūrṇamāsa, with Somaka as the youngest, were [the sons] of Kālindī.
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Praghoṣa, Gātravat, Siṃha, Bala, Prabala, Ūrdhaga, / Mahāśakti, Saha, Ojas, and Aparājita were the sons of Mādrī.
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Vṛka, Harṣa, Anila, Gṛdhra, Vardhana, Unnāda, / Mahāṃsa, Pāvana, Vahni, and Kṣudhi were the sons of Mitravindā.
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Saṅgrāmajit, Bṛhatsena, Śūra, Praharaṇa, Arijit, / Jaya, and Subhadra were Bhadrā's [sons], and Vāma, Āyus, and Satyaka.
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Dīptimat, Tāmratapta, and others were Hari's sons by Rohiṇī. / From Pradyumna was born the mighty Aniruddha by Rukmavatī, / the daughter of Rukmin, O King, in the city named Bhojakaṭa.
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The sons and grandsons of these numbered in the tens of millions, O King; / and the mothers of those born of Kṛṣṇa were sixteen thousand.
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The King said: / How did Rukmin give his daughter in marriage to the son of his enemy, / when, having been humiliated in battle by Kṛṣṇa, he was watching for a weakness to kill him? / Explain to me, wise sage, this marriage between two who hated each other.
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The future, the past, the present, that which transcends the senses, / the distant, and the concealed—yogins perceive all this clearly.
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Śrī Śuka said: / Chosen by her at the svayaṃvara, he, the bodiless god of love embodied, / vanquished the assembled kings on his single chariot and bore her away in battle.
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Although Rukmin remembered his enmity, having been humiliated by Kṛṣṇa, / he gave his daughter to his nephew to please his sister.
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The powerful son of Kṛtavarman married the large-eyed maiden Cārumatī, / who was the daughter of Rukmiṇī, O King.
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Rukmin gave his granddaughter Rocanā to Hari's grandson Aniruddha, / even though he held an enmity, desiring to please his sister, / knowing this marital union to be contrary to dharma, bound as he was by ties of affection.
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On that festive occasion, O King, Rukmiṇī, Rāma and Keśava, / along with Sāmba, Pradyumna, and others, went to the city of Bhojakaṭa.
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When that wedding was concluded, the kings, led by the king of Kaliṅga, / being arrogant, said to Rukmin: 'Defeat Bala at dice!
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For he is no expert at dice, O King, yet he has a great addiction to it.' / Addressed thus, Rukmin invited Bala and played at dice with him.
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Rāma wagered a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand there, / and Rukmin won it. Then the king of Kaliṅga laughed loudly at Bala, / showing his teeth; the plow-armed one could not tolerate that.
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Then Rukmin accepted a wager of a hundred thousand; Bala won it there. / Rukmin, resorting to deceit, said, 'I have won!'
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Agitated with anger like the glorious ocean at the full moon, / his eyes naturally red with extreme fury, [Bala] placed a wager of a hundred million.
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Rāma won that too by fair play, but Rukmin resorted to cheating: / 'I have won! Let the umpires present here say so!'
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Then a voice from the sky spoke: 'The wager has indeed been won by Bala / in accordance with dharma; by his words alone Rukmin is speaking falsely!'
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Disregarding that voice, the prince of Vidarbha, urged on by wicked kings / and impelled by fate, ridiculed Saṅkarṣaṇa and spoke:
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'You cowherds roaming the forest are not skilled in dice! / Kings play with dice and with arrows, not people like you.'
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Insulted thus by Rukmin and mocked by the kings, / enraged, he raised an iron club and struck him down in the assembly of the proud.
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Seizing the king of Kaliṅga with force at the tenth step, / the enraged [Bala] knocked out his teeth, he who had laughed with teeth bared.
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The other kings, their arms, thighs, and heads shattered, drenched in blood, / fled in terror, afflicted by the club of Bala.
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When his brother-in-law Rukmin was slain, Hari said neither 'good' nor 'bad', / O King, out of fear of breaking the affection of Rukmiṇī and Bala.
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Then, placing Aniruddha with his bride upon the chariot, / Rāma and the other Daśārhas, having accomplished all their desires, departed from Bhojakaṭa for Kuśasthalī, relying on Madhusūdana.
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- The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
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- Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit