SB 10.83.6-7
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Please note: The synonyms, translation and purport of this verse were composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda
TEXTS 6-7
- śrī-draupady uvāca
- he vaidarbhy acyuto bhadre
- he jāmbavati kauśale
- he satyabhāme kālindi
- śaibye rohiṇi lakṣmaṇe
- he kṛṣṇa-patnya etan no
- brūte vo bhagavān svayam
- upayeme yathā lokam
- anukurvan sva-māyayā
SYNONYMS
śrī-draupadī uvāca—Śrī Draupadī said; he vaidarbhi—O daughter of Vaidarbha (Rukmiṇī); acyutaḥ—Lord Kṛṣṇa; bhadre—O Bhadrā; he jāmbavati—O daughter of Jāmbavān; kauśale—O Nāgnajitī; he satyabhāme—O Satyabhāmā; kālindi—O Kālindī; śaibye—O Mitravindā; rohiṇi—O Rohiṇī (one of the sixteen thousand queens married after the killing of Narakāsura); lakṣmaṇe—O Lakṣmaṇā; he kṛṣṇa-patnyaḥ—O (other) wives of Kṛṣṇa; etat—this; naḥ—to us; brūte—please speak; vaḥ—you; bhagavān—the Supreme Lord; svayam—Himself; upayeme—married; yathā—how; lokam—ordinary society; anukurvan—imitating; sva-māyayā—by His own mystic power.
Translation and purport composed by disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda
TRANSLATION
Śrī Draupadī said: O Vaidarbhī, Bhadrā and Jāmbavatī, O Kauśalā, Satyabhāmā and Kālindī, O Śaibyā, Rohiṇī, Lakṣmaṇā and other wives of Lord Kṛṣṇa, please tell me how the Supreme Lord Acyuta, imitating the ways of this world by His mystic power, came to marry each of you.
PURPORT
The Rohiṇī addressed here by Draupadī is not Lord Balarāma's mother but another Rohiṇī, the foremost of the sixteen thousand princesses Lord Kṛṣṇa rescued from the prison of Bhaumāsura. Draupadī turns to her as the representative of all sixteen thousand, and as a virtual equal to Śrī Kṛṣṇa's eight chief queens.