Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2714

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(2) *Kṛṣṇa-Rukmiṇī.* King Bhīṣmaka of Vidarbha had five sons the eldest of whom was Rukmī. His sixth child was a daughter and she was named Rukmiṇī. Stories about Kṛṣṇa kindled in Rukmiṇī love for him. Rukmī, who hated Kṛṣṇa, wanted to give his sister in marriage to Śiśupāla. Rukmiṇī sent through a brahmin a message about the affair to Dvārakā. On the day of Rukmiṇī’s Svayaṃvara Rāma and Kṛṣṇa also went to Kuṇḍinapurī, capital of Vidarbha, and Kṛṣṇa, in the presence of all Kings, carried Rukmiṇī away in his chariot. The Kings who, under the leadership of Rukmī, attacked Kṛṣṇa were routed. A son called Pradyumna was born to Kṛṣṇa by Rukmiṇī. (See under Pradyumna).