Bhagavatapurana 10.90
English (machine translation) 10.90
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- 10.90.9 — 1 part
- 10.90.10 — 2 parts
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- 10.90.23 — 2 parts
- 10.90.46 — 1 part
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- 10.90.48 — 2 parts
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Śrī-Śuka said: / Living happily in his own city, Dvārakā, the Lord of Śrī, / which was endowed with all prosperity and inhabited by the foremost of the Vṛṣṇis,
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and by women in the finest attire, shining with fresh youth, / playing with balls and the like on the mansion terraces, radiant like lightning flashes,
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its roads ever crowded with rut-dripping elephants, / well-adorned warriors, horses, and chariots resplendent with gold,
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rich in pleasure-gardens and parks, where rows of blooming trees / resounded all around with swarming bees and birds—
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there, the one beloved of sixteen thousand wives / took delight in their immensely prosperous homes, assuming as many diverse forms.
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In clear waters scented with the pollen of fully blown blue lotuses, white lilies, / night-blooming lotuses, and day-blooming lotuses, where flocks of birds were chirping,
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plunging into the waters of the lotus-pools, the supremely majestic Lord sportively disported, / his limbs smeared with the saffron from their breasts, embraced by the women,
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while being sung to by Gandharvas playing mṛdaṅgas, paṇavas, and ānakas, / and by joyfully luting Sūtas, Māgadhas, and bards.
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Sprayed by them with water-syringes as they laughed, Acyuta / played playfully, spraying them in return, like the king of Yakṣas with Yakṣī maidens.
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Their broad breasts and thighs exposed by their drenched clothes, spraying [water] as the large flowers from their braids loosened,
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they embraced their beloved with the desire to seize the syringe, their faces gleaming with smiles of nascent passion, and shone brilliantly.
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Kṛṣṇa, adorned with a garland smeared with the saffron of their breasts, the gathering of his locks shaken loose in the eagerness of play,
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Kṛṣṇa, adorned with a garland smeared with the saffron of their breasts, the gathering of his locks shaken loose in the eagerness of play,
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spraying repeatedly and sprayed in return by the young women, / took delight like a lord of elephants surrounded by female elephants.
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Kṛṣṇa and his wives gave the garments and play ornaments / to the actors, dancers, and those who subsisted by singing and instrumental music.
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As Kṛṣṇa disported thus, the minds of the women were truly stolen away / by his movements, conversations, glances, and smiles, by his jests, dalliance, and embraces.
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With their intellects fixed solely on Mukunda, contemplating the lotus-eyed one, / they uttered bewildered words like madwomen; hear them as I recount them:
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The queens said: / “O osprey, you lament, sleepless and not resting, while the Lord sleeps during the night in this world, his consciousness hidden. / O friend, has your heart, like ours, been deeply pierced by the generous, sportive glance accompanied by the lotus-eyed one’s smile?
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* // / You do not close your eyes at night, separated from your beloved; alas, cakravākī bird, you cry out piteously. / Having attained servitude like us, do you yearn to bear in your braids the garland enjoyed by Acyuta’s feet?
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* // / “O Ocean, you moan constantly, having obtained no sleep and enduring vigil! / Or have you too, your natural marks stolen away by Mukunda, reached an incurable condition?
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O Moon, you have been seized by consumption and are emaciated; you do not dispel the darkness with your rays.
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Can it be that, like us, you have forgotten the words of Mukunda, so that, O friend, you appear to have choked speech?
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“O breeze from the Malaya mountain, what unpleasant deed have we done to you, / that you arouse passion in our hearts already pierced by Govinda’s side-glances?
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O cloud, glorious one, you are surely dear to the lord of the Yādavas; like us, bound by love, you meditate on the one marked with the Śrīvatsa.
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Filled with intense longing, your heart troubled like ours, remembering and remembering his association which causes grief, you shed repeated streams of tears.
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“You utter sweet-sounding syllables with this voice that revives the dead. / Tell me, sweet-throated cuckoo, what dear service may I do for you today?
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“O generous-minded mountain, you neither move nor speak; you ponder some great matter. / Alas, do you, like us, long to hold the feet of the son of Vasudeva to your breasts?
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Alas, wives of the ocean [rivers]! Your pools are drying up, emaciated, now stripped of the splendor of lotuses for your cherished husband,
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just as we, not obtaining the loving glance of the Lord of Madhu, are emaciated, our hearts stolen away.
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"O swan, welcome! Be seated, drink milk, and tell us, dear one, of the deeds of Śauri. / Do we recognize you as his messenger? Is the unconquered Lord well? So he said long ago.
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"O swan, welcome! Be seated, drink milk, and tell us, dear one, of the deeds of Śauri. / Do we recognize you as his messenger? Is the unconquered Lord well? So he said long ago.
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Or does he of fickle affection still remember us? Why should we serve him? / O honeybee, speak to that fulfiller of desires; except for Śrī, she alone is steadfast to that womanizer!"
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Śrī Śuka said: / Rendering such devotional emotion unto Kṛṣṇa, the master of the masters of yoga, / the women of Madhu's lineage attained the supreme goal.
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He who forcibly steals the hearts of women even when merely heard of, / celebrated or sung by the wide-striding Lord—how much more so for those who gazed upon him?
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How can one describe the austerities of those women who served with love, / by massaging his feet and other acts, the Guru of the universe, regarding him as their husband?
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Thus performing the dharma proclaimed in the Veda, the refuge of the virtuous devotees / repeatedly demonstrated that the household is the abode of dharma, wealth, and pleasure.
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As Kṛṣṇa practiced the supreme dharma of householders, / he had more than sixteen thousand and one hundred queens.
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Among those jewels of women, the eight who were previously described, / headed by Rukmiṇī, O King, and their sons in succession [are now told].
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In each one, Kṛṣṇa, the Lord whose path never fails, / begot ten sons, for as many wives as he possessed.
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Among those sons of unbounded valor, eighteen were great chariot-warriors / of noble renown; hear their names from me:
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Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Dīptimat, and Bhānu, / Sāmba, Madhu, Bṛhadbhānu, Citrabhānu, Vṛka, Aruṇa,
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Puṣkara, Vedabāhu, Śrutadeva, Sunandana, / Citrabāhu, Virūpa, Kavi, and Nyagrodha.
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Among these sons of the enemy of Madhu, O best of kings, / Rukmiṇī's son Pradyumna was foremost, taking after his father.
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That great chariot-warrior married the daughter of Rukmin; / from her was born Aniruddha, endowed with the strength of ten thousand elephants.
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And he, the daughter's son, then took the granddaughter of Rukmin; / from her was born Vajra, who alone survived the destruction by the iron clubs.
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From him was born Pratibāhu, and his son was Subāhu; / from Subāhu came Śāntasena, and Śatasena was his son.
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Indeed, in this family none were born poor or with few offspring, / short-lived, weak in prowess, or undevoted to the brāhmaṇas.
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The men born of the lineage of Yadu, famed for their deeds, / cannot be numbered even in ten thousand years, O King.
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Thirty million and eight hundred and eighty / were the teachers of the young boys in the Yadu clan, so it is heard.
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Who can count the great-souled Yādavas, / where King Āhuka ruled over a hundred thousand times ten thousand [attendants]?
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The exceedingly terrible Daiteyas slain in the battles between gods and demons / took birth among human beings, and being arrogant, oppressed the creatures.
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For their restraint, the gods, commanded by Hari, descended / into the lineage of Yadu, forming a hundred and one clans, O King.
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The Lord Hari was their standard by virtue of his supremacy; / and all the Yādavas who followed him prospered.
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In sleeping, sitting, walking, conversing, / playing, bathing, and other activities, the Vṛṣṇis, their minds fixed on Kṛṣṇa, were unaware of their own bodies.
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He made sacred that which was deficient, O King, by taking birth among the Yadus, he whose foot-wash is the heavenly river; / both enemies and loving devotees attained his very form, he beyond whom there is no unconquered one, and for whose sake others strive for fortune;
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whose name removes inauspiciousness when heard or spoken, and by whom the duty of family was established; / that Kṛṣṇa, wielding the wheel of time as his weapon, removed the burden of the earth is no wonder.
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Victorious is the dwelling of all beings, reputed to be born of Devakī, / surrounded by the assembly of the best of Yadus, destroying unrighteousness with his own arms,
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Victorious is the dwelling of all beings, reputed to be born of Devakī, / surrounded by the assembly of the best of Yadus, destroying unrighteousness with his own arms,
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destroyer of the suffering of the moving and unmoving, who by his smiling, radiant face / awakens the god of love in the women of Vraja and the city!
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Thus, of the Supreme Lord, who assumed a body of divine play desiring to protect his own path, / one who desires to follow in his footsteps
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Thus, of the Supreme Lord, who assumed a body of divine play desiring to protect his own path, / one who desires to follow in his footsteps
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should hear the deeds of that best of Yadus, which mimic mortal life appropriately / and wipe away the traces of karma.
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A mortal, through that [devotion] constantly nourished by Mukunda, / by listening to, chanting, and contemplating his glorious stories, reaches
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A mortal, through that [devotion] constantly nourished by Mukunda, / by listening to, chanting, and contemplating his glorious stories, reaches
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that abode which puts an end to the swift course of insurmountable death— / the goal for which even rulers of the earth departed from city to forest.
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Translations (1)
- The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
Linked texts (1)
- Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit