Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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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

WORD BY WORD



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.

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