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Matsyapurana 70.5

Matsyapurāṇa 70.5

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Sanskrit

70.5

gacchansamīpamārgeṇa sāmbaḥ parapuraṃjayaḥ
sākṣātkandarpo rūpeṇa sarvābharaṇabhūṣitaḥ //

Śiva said:—There will be 16,000 wives of Kṛiṣṇa in the Yuga mentioned before. When once, in the spring time, those ladies, having decorated themselves with ornaments, would be drinking together on the banks of a pond studded with full-budded lotus flowers, dancing with the wind and resounding with the melodious notes of the cuckoo and musical tunes of the big black bee, they will see Lord Sâmba, beautiful like Cupid, having eyes handsome like those of a gazelle, and wearing the garlands of mâlati, passing by. They will cast on him amorous glances, their hearts being fired with lustful feelings and they being targets of the arrows of Cupid.—2-6. Lord Kṛiṣṇa will come to know all that with his mental vision, and will curse them as follows: ‘Because you cherished the desire of amorous pastime during my absence, all of you will be taken away by bandits.’—7.

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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