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In this way, Kṛṣṇa’s family – Kṛṣṇa and His wives, along with their sons and grandsons and even great-grandsons

immediately captured him, and because the king had always shown his teeth while criticizing Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa

Śrī Balarāma’s losing the game was an opportunity for the king of Kaliṅga to criticize Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma

All the princesses who were wives of Kṛṣṇa were exquisitely beautiful, and each one of them was attracted by Kṛṣṇa’s eyes, which were just like lotus petals, and by His beautiful face, long arms, beautiful Influenced by these features of Kṛṣṇa, they all used to dress themselves very attractively, desiring by smiling and moving their eyebrows, thus shooting sharp arrows of conjugal love just to awaken Kṛṣṇa’s Still, they could not arouse Kṛṣṇa’s mind or His sexual appetite.

During this strife between Balarāma and Rukmī, Lord Kṛṣṇa did not utter a word, for He knew that if He Therefore, Lord Kṛṣṇa was silent on the death of His brother-in-law Rukmī on the occasion of His grandson The bridegroom’s party was always protected by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the killer of the Madhu demon.

The queens of Dvārakā were so fortunate that they got Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa as their husband and personal companion Lord Kṛṣṇa and His queens remained together as husband and wife, and Kṛṣṇa, as an ideal husband, treated Each and every wife had hundreds and thousands of maidservants, yet when Kṛṣṇa entered the palaces of His thousands of wives, each one of them used to receive Kṛṣṇa personally by seating Him in a nice chair Thus they served Kṛṣṇa always in every respect, especially when Kṛṣṇa was eating.

Although Rukmī was a veritable enemy of Kṛṣṇa, he had great affection for his sister, Rukmiṇī, and wanted in order to please Rukmiṇī, Rukmī offered his daughter and granddaughter to the son and grandson of Kṛṣṇa traveled until they reached Bhojakaṭa, which Rukmī had colonized after his sister had been kidnapped by Kṛṣṇa This marriage party was led by the grandfather, namely Lord Kṛṣṇa, accompanied by Lord Balarāma, and it included Kṛṣṇa’s first wife, Rukmiṇī, His son Pradyumna, Jāmbavatī’s son Sāmba and many other relatives

So Rukmī was advised to retaliate against the family members of Kṛṣṇa by challenging Balarāma to play

Rukmī, the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa’s first wife, Rukmiṇī, was greatly harassed and insulted in his fight with Kṛṣṇa, but on the request of Rukmiṇī his life was spared. Since then Rukmī held a great grudge against Kṛṣṇa and was always inimical toward Him. Nevertheless, his daughter married Kṛṣṇa’s son, and his granddaughter married Kṛṣṇa’s grandson Aniruddha heard it from Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and the king addressed him as follows: “I am surprised that Rukmī and Kṛṣṇa

Kṛṣṇa had 16,108 wives, and in each of them He begot ten sons, all of them equal to their father in the All the 16,108 wives of Kṛṣṇa were princesses, and when each saw that Kṛṣṇa was always present in her respective palace and did not leave home, she considered Kṛṣṇa a henpecked husband who was very much Every one of them thought that Kṛṣṇa was her very obedient husband, but actually Kṛṣṇa had no attraction Although each thought that she was the only wife of Kṛṣṇa and was very, very dear to Him, Lord Kṛṣṇa,

In spite of this divine voice, Rukmī insisted that Balarāma had lost, and by his persistence it appeared Falsely puffed up by the ill advice of his friend, he did not give much importance to the oracle, and , cowherd boys only, may be very expert in tending cows, but how can You be expert in playing chess or He immediately took His club in His hand and, without further talk, struck Rukmī on the head. From that one blow, Rukmī fell down immediately and was dead and gone.

Each of Kṛṣṇa’s 16,108 queens had ten sons. By Rukmiṇī, Kṛṣṇa had the following ten sons: Pradyumna, Cārudeṣṇa, Sudeṣṇa, Cārudeha, Sucāru, Cārugupta None of them were inferior in their qualities to their divine father, Lord Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa was specifically very affectionate to the sons of Jāmbavatī. The ten sons Lord Kṛṣṇa had by His wife Satyā, the daughter of King Nagnajit, were as follows: Vīra,

Rukmī appealed to the princes present, and he especially mentioned the name of the king of Kaliṅga. During the dispute there was a voice from the sky, and it announced that for all honest purposes Balarāma was the actual winner of this game, that He was being abused, and that the statement of Rukmī that he

Pradyumna, the eldest son of Kṛṣṇa, born of Rukmiṇī, was Cupid himself. Although enmity always blazed in Rukmī’s heart because of his having been insulted by Kṛṣṇa’s kidnapping

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the sixty-first chapter of Kṛṣṇa, “The Genealogy of the Family of Kṛṣṇa.”