Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c11.s3.38
Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c11.s3.38
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The fourth Act changes the scene from the joyless Vṛndāvana to Mathurā, and reveals the corresponding sorrow of Kṛṣṇa at being separated from Candrāvalī, Rādhā and his beloved Gopīs. In the meantime Candrāvalī, who is really Rukmiṇī, has been carried away by her brother Rukmin, who is ashamed of her being brought up at Vṛndāvana, in order that she, a princess, should be suitably married to Śiśupāla, king of the Cedis. The sixteen thousand one hundred Gopīs were also forcibly abducted by the demon Naraka, so that one must imagine that Vṛndāvana was by this time desolated.