Chapter 58: Krishna also Weds
Kâlindî, Mitravindâ, Satyâ, Lakshmanâ and
Bhadrâ
(30) Vindya and Anuvindya, two kings from
Avantî [Ujjain] subservient to Duryodhana, obstructed their
sister [Mitravindâ] who was attracted to Krishna, in her svayamvara
[ceremony for chosing a husband].
(31) Mitravindâ, the daughter of Râjâdhidevî,
His
father's sister [9.24: 28-31], was
with force, before the eyes of the kings, taken away by
Krishna o King [compare 10.53].
Chapter 59: Mura and Bhauma
Killed and
the Prayers of Bhûmî
(6) Hearing the vibration of
the Lord His Pâñcajanya that sounded like the thunder at
the end of time, the five-headed demon Mura rose who lay
asleep in the water [of the moat]. (7) Raising his trident, he most
difficult to behold with an effulgence as terrible as the fire of the
sun, attacked as if he with his five mouths wanted to swallow the
three
words, like the son of Tâkshya [Garuda] attacks a snake.
(38-39) Going to the abode of the king of the gods and giving Aditi her
earrings He was together with His beloved
[Satyabhâmâ]
worshiped by Indra the head of the [chief] thirty demigods and the
great king his wife. Urged by His wife He uprooted the
pârijâta, placed it on Garuda and brought it, after
defeating the
demigods [who opposed that], to His city.
Chapter 60: Lord Krishna Teases
Queen Rukminî
(20) We indifferent about a
home and the body do not really care for wives, children and
wealth;
We, free from any endeavoring, remain completely satisfied within
Ourselves like a light existing for itself does.'
Chapter 61: Lord Balarâma
Slays Rukmî at Aniruddha's Wedding
(25) Rukmî, despite of
his being bound in enmity to the Lord, gave to his daughter's son
Aniruddha, his granddaughter named Rocanâ. Aware of the fact that
the
marriage was against the dharma [because he then would side with the
enemy], he, constrained by the ropes of affection, preferred to please his
sister with that marriage.
Chapter 62: Ûshâ in
Love and Aniruddha Apprehended
(10) His virgin daughter named Ûshâ in a dream had an
amorous encounter with the son
of Pradyumna while she never before had seen or heard of the lover she
thus had found [see *].
(17) Thus having spoken she accurately drew for her the
demigod and the heavenly singer, the one perfected, the venerable one
and the lowlife serpent, the demon, the magician, the supernatural one
and
the human being. (18-19) Of the humans she drew Vrishnis like
S'ûrasena, Vasudeva, Balarâma and Krishna but seeing
Pradyumna Ûshâ became bashful and with Aniruddha being
drawn she bent down her head in embarrassment o great lord, and said
smiling: 'That's Him, that one here!'
Chapter 63: The Fever in Conflict
and
Bâna Defeated
(18) Bâna,
in
a frenzy because of the fighting, with fixing two arrows on each,
simultaneously bent the complete of his fivehundred bows.
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