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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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कच्चिद्धरेः सौम्य सुतः सदृक्ष आस्तेऽग्रणी रथिनां साधु साम्बः असूत यं जाम्बवती व्रताढ्या देवं गुहं योऽम्बिकया धृतोऽग्रे
kaccid dhareḥ saumya sutaḥ sadṛkṣa āste ’graṇī rathināṁ sādhu sāmbaḥ asūta yaṁ jāmbavatī vratāḍhyā devaṁ guhaṁ yo ’mbikayā dhṛto ’gre
WORD BY WORD
kaccit whether; hareḥ of the Personality of Godhead; saumya O grave one; sutaḥ son; sadṛkṣaḥ similar; āste fares well; agraṇīḥ foremost; rathinām of the warriors; sādhu well-behaved; sāmbaḥ Sāmba; asūta gave birth; yam whom; jāmbavatī Jāmbavatī, a queen of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s; vratāḍhyā enriched by vows; devam the demigod; guham of the name Kārttikeya; yaḥ whom; ambikayā unto the wife of Śiva; dhṛtaḥ born; agre in the previous birth.;
TRANSLATION
| O gentle one, does Sāmba fare well? He exactly resembles the son of the Personality of Godhead. In a previous birth he was born as Kārttikeya in the womb of the wife of Lord Śiva, and now he has been born in the womb of Jāmbavatī, the most enriched wife of Kṛṣṇa.
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PURPORT
| Lord Śiva, one of the three qualitative incarnations of the Personality of Godhead, is the plenary expansion of the Lord. Kārttikeya, born of him, is on the level of Pradyumna, another son of Lord Kṛṣṇa. When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa descends into the material world, all His plenary portions also appear with Him to exhibit different functions of the Lord. But for the pastimes at Vṛndāvana, all functions are performed by the Lord’s different plenary expansions. Vāsudeva is a plenary expansion of Nārāyaṇa. When the Lord appeared as Vāsudeva before Devakī and Vasudeva, He appeared in His capacity as Nārāyaṇa. Similarly, all the demigods of the heavenly kingdom appeared as associates of the Lord in the forms of Pradyumna, Sāmba, Uddhava, etc. It is learned here that Kāmadeva appeared as Pradyumna, Kārttikeya as Sāmba, and one of the Vasus as Uddhava. All of them served in their different capacities in order to enrich the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa.
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