Bhagavatapurana 10.83
English (machine translation) 10.83
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- 10.83.3 — 1 part
- 10.83.4 — 1 part
- 10.83.27 — 1 part
- 10.83.28 — 3 parts
- 10.83.29 — 1 part
- 10.83.35 — 1 part
- 10.83.36 — 1 part
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Śrī Śuka said:
Having thus bestowed grace upon the gopīs, the Lord, their spiritual guide and refuge, / then questioned Yudhiṣṭhira and all his friends about their welfare.
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Having been thus questioned and deeply honored by the master of the world, / with delighted minds, their sins destroyed by the sight of his feet, they replied:
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Whence can there ever be inauspiciousness for embodied beings who drink to the full with the cups of their ears / the nectar of your lotus feet flowing from the mouths of great-minded devotees, which destroys the forgetfulness that creates the body, O Lord?
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Abandoning one's own abode, having shaken off the three states created by oneself, a surge of bliss, unbroken, of unhindered knowledge,
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We bow to you, the refuge of supreme ascetics, who have assumed a form through your creative power of yoga to protect the scriptures beset by time.
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The sage said:
As the people were thus praising the crest-jewel of those of highest renown, the women of the Andhakas and the Kauravas, / having met together, mutually recounted the stories of Govinda, which are sung in the three worlds; listen as I describe them to you.
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Śrī Draupadī said:
O princess of Vidarbha, O Bhadrā, O Jāmbavatī, O Kauśalyā, / O Satyabhāmā, O Kālindī, O Śaibyā, O Rohiṇī, O Lakṣmaṇā,
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O wives of Kṛṣṇa, tell us this: how did the Lord himself / marry you, imitating the world through his creative power?
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Śrī Rukmiṇī said:
When the kings had their bows raised to surrender me to the king of Cedi, he whose foot-dust crowned unconquered warriors / carried me off, as a lion takes his share from a flock of goats and sheep; may those feet, the abode of Śrī, be the object of my worship.
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Śrī Satyabhāmā said:
He who defeated the king of bears and brought back the jewel to wipe away the curse cast by my father, / whose heart burned at the killing of his kinsman, and who gave it back; my father, terrified by this, gave me to the master, even though I had already been promised to another.
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Śrī Jāmbavatī said:
Not recognizing him as his master and deity, the husband of Sītā, my father fought him for twenty-seven days; / having recognized him upon being tested, he seized his feet and offered me as an offering along with the jewel; I am his servant.
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Śrī Kālindī said:
Knowing that I was performing austerities with the desire to touch his feet, / he approached with a friend and took my hand; I am the sweeper of his house.
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Śrī Mitravindā said:
He who approached me at my self-choice, defeated the kings, and carried me off like a lion taking his prey from a pack of dogs, / while my brothers tried to injure him, and brought me to his city, the abode of fortune—may I have the experience of washing his feet.
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Śrī Satyā said:
There were seven bulls of tremendous strength and prowess, with very sharp horns, set up by my father to test the prowess of kings; / he who crushes the false pride of heroes restrained them with ease and bound them in play, as children bind kid-goats.
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May I be the servant of Him who, taking me—whose bride-price was valor— / along with my maidservants and fourfold army, / defeated the kings on the road / and led me away.
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Śrī Bhadrā said: / My father himself invited his nephew, Kṛṣṇa, / and gave me to Him, whose mind was already fixed on Kṛṣṇa, / along with an akṣauhiṇī army and female companions.
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May I have contact with His feet birth after birth, / as I wander by my karmas; / by that comes one’s highest good.
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Śrī Lakṣmaṇā said: / O Queen, my mind too, hearing repeatedly of the births and deeds of Acyuta sung by Nārada, / became set upon Mukunda, / who was chosen by the goddess who holds a lotus in her hand, after careful deliberation, leaving aside the guardians of the world.
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Knowing my intention, O virtuous lady, my father, named Bṛhatsena, / who loved his daughter dearly, / devised an expedient there.
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Just as at your svayaṃvara, O Queen, a fish was set up out of a desire for Arjuna, / but this one was concealed on the outside, / visible only in the water.
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Hearing of this, kings came from all sides to my father’s city— / knowing the truth of all missiles and weapons, / accompanied by their teachers, by the thousands.
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Honored by my father, all according to their strength and age, / they took up the bow with an arrow in the assembly / to pierce [the target], their minds fixed on me.
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Some, taking it up, dropped it, unable to string it; / others, having pulled the string up to the forearm, / fell, struck by it.
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Other heroes, having strung it—the kings of Magadha, Ambaṣṭha, and Cedi, / Bhīma, Duryodhana, and Karṇa— / did not know its location.
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Arjuna, seeing the reflection of the fish in the water and knowing its location, / took aim and shot an arrow; / he did not pierce it, but merely touched it.
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When the kings had withdrawn, their pride broken, proud as they were, / the Lord took up the bow, strung it in divine play,
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fitted an arrow to it, looked once at the fish in the water, / severed it with the arrow and brought it down / when the sun stood in the Abhijit constellation.
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Drums sounded in heaven, accompanied by shouts of victory on earth, / and the gods, overwhelmed with joy, / showered down streams of flowers.
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Then I entered that arena, with tinkling anklets / on my feet, holding a jewel-garland gleaming with gold,
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having tied on an undergarment and draped a fine new silk cloth, / my face with a modest smile, / a wreath resting in my hair.
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Lifting my face, its cheeks shining with the luster of large locks of hair and earrings, / by the release of side-glances with cool smiles,
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lifting my face, its cheeks shining with the luster of large locks of hair and earrings, / by the release of side-glances with cool smiles,
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looking all around at the kings, / with a heart full of love, I slowly placed my garland / on the shoulder of Murāri.
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Instantly mṛdaṅga drums, paṭaha drums, conches, bherī drums, and kettle-drums / sounded; actors and female dancers danced; / singers sang.
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When the Lord, the Master, was thus chosen by me, / the leader-kings, contending and tormented by lust, / could not bear it, O daughter of Yajñasena.
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Then, having mounted me upon His chariot drawn by four excellent horses, / raising the Śārṅga bow, armed for battle, / the four-armed Lord stood ready in the field.
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Dāruka drove the chariot with its gold fittings / before the very eyes of the kings, O Queen, / like the king of beasts before animals.
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Some of those kings followed behind to stop Him on the road, / ready, with raised bows, / like village dogs pursuing a lion.
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With their arms, legs, and necks cut off by the volleys of arrows released from the Śārṅga bow, / some fell in the battle, / while others abandoned it and fled.
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Then the Lord of the Yadus entered the highly adorned city, / which had sun-shading banners and colorful archways,
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Kuśasthalī, praised in heaven and on earth, / as the sun enters its own abode.
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My father honored the friends, in-laws, and relatives / with costly garments, ornaments, / beds, seats, and furnishings.
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With maidservants, all kinds of treasures, soldiers, elephants, chariots, and horses, / he gave precious weapons out of devotion / to Him who is complete.
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Of Him who delights in the self, we indeed became housemaidens, / truly through the renunciation of all attachments / and through austerity.
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The queens said: / Having slain Bhauma along with his host in battle, / knowing of us, the daughters of conquered kings imprisoned by him during his conquest of the earth, / He, who has all desires fulfilled, released us / and married us, who remember His lotus feet which grant release from the cycle of rebirth.
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We do not desire universal sovereignty, O virtuous lady, nor heavenly rule, nor earthly enjoyment, / nor the realm of Virāj, nor the status of Brahmā, / nor the infinite, nor the abode of Hari.
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We desire to carry upon our heads the dust of the glorious feet of this Wielder of the Club, / rich with the fragrance of the saffron / from the breasts of the Goddess of Fortune,
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which the women of Vraja, the Pulinda women, the grasses and creepers, / the cows, and the cowherds desire / as that Great Soul grazes [His herd]—the touch of His feet.
Translations (1)
- The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
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- Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit