Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 65 Verse 31

Canto 10: The Summum Bonum | Chapter 65: Lord Balarāma Visits Vṛndāvana

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.65.31

kāmaḿ vihṛtya salilād

uttīrṇāyāsītāmbare

bhūṣaṇāni mahārhāṇi

dadau kāntiḥ śubhāḿ srajam

SYNONYMS

kāmam — as pleased Him; vihṛtya — having played; salilāt — from the water; uttīrṇāya — to Him who had risen; asita — blue; ambare — a pair of garments (upper and lower); bhūṣaṇāni — ornaments; mahā — greatly; arhāṇi — valuable; dadau — gave; kāntiḥ — Goddess Kānti; śubhām — splendidly beautiful; srajam — a necklace.

TRANSLATION

The Lord played in the water to His full satisfaction, and when He came out Goddess Kānti presented Him with blue garments, precious ornaments and a brilliant necklace.

PURPORT

Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī quotes from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa to show that the Goddess Kānti mentioned here is actually Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune:

varuṇa-prahitā cāsmai

mālām amlāna-pańkajām

samudrābhe tathā vastre

nīle lakṣmīr ayacchata

"Sent by Varuna, Goddess Lakṣmī then presented Him with a garland of unfading lotuses and a pair of garments colored blue like the ocean."

The great Bhāgavatam commentator Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī also quotes the following statement from Śrī Hari-vaḿśa, spoken by Goddess Lakṣmī to Lord Balarāma:

jātarūpa-mayaḿ caikaḿ

kuṇḍalaḿ vajra-bhūṣaṇam

ādi-padmaḿ ca padmākhyaḿ

divyaḿ śravaṇa-bhūṣaṇam

devemāḿ pratigṛhṇīṣva

paurāṇīḿ bhūṣaṇa-kriyām

"O Lord, please accept as divine ornaments for Your ears this single gold earring studded with diamonds and this primeval lotus called Padma. Kindly accept them, for this act of adornment is traditional."

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī further points out that Goddess Lakṣmī is the consort of the Lord's plenary expansion Sańkarṣaṇa who belongs to the second vyūha.

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