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the assembly by force, all the members of the Kuru dynasty, such as Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Bhīṣma, Vidura and Arjuna

When the prominent members of the Kuru dynasty, from grandfather Bhīṣmadeva to Arjuna and Duryodhana,

No one in the world can enjoy anything if members of the Kuru dynasty like Bhīṣma, Droṇācārya and Arjuna

After consultation and after receiving permission from the elder members of the Kuru dynasty, such as Bhīṣma and Dhṛtarāṣṭra, five great warriors – Karṇa, Śala, Bhūri, Yajñaketu and Duryodhana, the father of the girl – who were all mahā-rathīs and who were guided by the great fighter Bhīṣmadeva, attempted There are different grades of fighters, including mahā-rathī, eka-rathī and rathī, classified according Sāmba was also a mahā-rathī, but he was alone and had to fight with the six other mahā-rathīs.

The leaders of the Kuru dynasty, especially Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Duryodhana, were joyful because they knew There were no bounds to their joy on hearing the news, and so they immediately welcomed Uddhava. arghya (a mixture of ārati water and an assortment of items such as honey, butter, flowers and sandalwood Please, therefore, hear the order with attention and great care. that with great difficulty and unrighteous tactics you have arrested him.

Don’t you even think that Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, can sit on the exalted royal Does this mean that even Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of the whole creation and the husband of the goddess of The dust of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet is worshiped by all the great demigods. engage in His service and consider themselves most fortunate to take the dust of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa

another in the Age of Kali, He did not like the idea that the two great dynasties, the Kuru dynasty and “Instead of fighting with them,” He wisely thought, “let Me go there and see the situation, and let Me He was confident that the members of the Kuru dynasty would agree to this marriage and avoid fighting wanted to fight with the Yadu dynasty or to make a settlement. Bhīṣmadeva, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Droṇācārya, Duryodhana and Bāhlika.

He stood up steadily and, taking His plow in His hand, began striking the earth with it, separating the whole city of Hastināpura from the earth, and then He began to drag the city toward the flowing water This caused a great tremor throughout Hastināpura, as if there had been an earthquake, and it seemed

peaceful settlement despite the anger of all the other members of the Yadu dynasty, including Lord Kṛṣṇa

Sāmba, the glorious son of the Yadu dynasty, endowed with inconceivable potencies as the son of Lord Kṛṣṇa

practice of the kṣatriya kings to inaugurate some kind of fighting between the parties of the bride and release Sāmba from the confinement of the Kurus, Lord Balarāma came personally to settle the matter, and Thus with great pleasure they handed over their daughter to Sāmba, and the whole matter was settled. sixty years old; then he gave 10,000 nice horses, 6,000 chariots, dazzling just like the sunshine, and Balarāma was very satisfied after His great reception from the side of the Kurus, and accompanied by

The great sage Nārada immediately carried the news to the Yadu dynasty that Sāmba had been arrested and The members of the Yadu dynasty became very angry at Sāmba’s being arrested, and improperly so by six

of Vṛndāvana is called the Yamunā because it is sanctified by the transcendental pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa

There was every possibility of the Yadus’ accepting the challenge and fighting with them. thought, “If they come here to challenge us because their son was arrested, we shall accept the fight and (In the mechanical system of mystic yoga, the airs within the body are controlled, and the senses are subdued and checked from being engaged in anything other than meditation upon Lord Viṣṇu.)

He was a son of Kṛṣṇa’s by Jāmbavatī, one of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s chief wives. As previously explained, all the sons of Kṛṣṇa were as qualified as their great father.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the sixty-eighth chapter of Kṛṣṇa, “The Marriage of Sāmba.”