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After krishNa annihilated kAlayavana’s army, jarAsandha came waging a war with a huge army. krishNa did not consider to kill them at that time. Hence he along with balarAma escaped to dhvArakA. Since jarAsandha could not trace them he determined that they died and thus he returned to his kingdom.
At this time, bhIshmaka, the king of vidharba, decide to arrange the marriage for his daughter rukmiNi. His son rukmi desired to have rukmiNi marry his friend SiSupAla. But rukmiNi is an absolute incarnation of SrImahAlakshmi. Whenever bhagavAn incarnates in this world, she too accompanies him. She knows about krishNa very well and wanted to marry him only. krishNa too wanted to marry her. Due to compulsion from rukmi the marriage between rukmiNi and SiSupAla was arranged and a date was fixed. A few days before the fixed date, they started performing the rituals for the marriage.
rukmiNi’s mind became disturbed. She requested a brAhamaNa to go as a messenger to krishNa from her. She wrote a letter and handed it over to him and asked him to go to dhvArakA as quickly as possible to hand it over to krishNa. The brAhmaNa too reached dhvArakA swiftly and handed over the letter to krishNa. In that letter, rukmiNi revealed her great love for krishNa in a nice manner. Not just that, she also informed to krishNa that the day before the wedding, she will go in a procession to the dhurgA temple outside the city and requested krishNa to take her away from there at that time.
Seeing that, he at once started on his chariot and reached the border of the city where she was living. balarAma and other yAdhavas accompanied him. At that time, rukmiNi was getting ready to go to that temple. Remaining near that temple, he blew his pAnchajanyam conch to announce his victory. rukmiNi became blissful understanding the arrival of krishNa. As she came close to the temple, she climbed krishNa’s chariot. krishNa at once started riding his chariot at a great speed. rukmi, SiSupAla, jarAsandha et al tried to defeat krishNa. balarAma and other yAdhavas fought them and won over them. rukmi became very angry and went to krishNa along with his army and started a fight. In the process, krishNa tried to kill rukmi with his sword, but rukmiNi stopped him from doing that. He then shaved rukmi’s hair, disfigured him and caused great insult to him. He then left from there and reached dhvArakA along with rukmiNi.
The citizens of dhvArakA became blissful seeing krishNa and rukmiNi. A grand wedding ceremony was done for them in there.
periyAzhwAr in periyAzhwAr thirumozhi explains about krishNa taking away rukmiNi and insulting rukmi saying “uruppiNi nangaiyaith thErERRik koNdu viruppuRRu angEga viraindhu edhir vandhu serukkuRRAn vIram sidhaiya thalaiyaich chiraiththittAn vanmaiyaip pAdippaRa dhEvagi singaththaip pAdippaRa” (Having rukmiNi climbing his chariot, krishNa shaved the head of the brave rukmi who came waging a fierce war. Praise the glories of such krishNa who is the lion like son of dhEvaki). ANdAL nAchchiyAr in her nAchchiyAr thirumozhi explains how SiSupAla was waiting to marry rukmiNi but krishNa married her in “kaNNAlam kOdiththuk kanni thannaik kaippidippAn thiNNArndhirundhu sisupAlan thEsazhindhu aNNAndhirukkavE AngavaLaik kaippidiththu peNNALan pENum Ur pErum arangamE” (SiSupAla was very confident that he was going to marry rukmiNip pirAtti (SrI mahAlakshmi), after all the preliminary events for the wedding had been completed. When he lost all his radiance and was looking helplessly at the sky, emperumAn mercifully married that rukmiNip pirAtti and became famous as being the support for all women. The divine name of the divine abode where that emperumAn is reclining is thiruvarangam). nammAzhwAr explains in his thiruvAimozhi how emperumAn won the battle and married rukmiNi in “anRangamar venRu uruppiNi nangai aNi nedundhOL puNarndhAn” (krishNa embraced the beautiful, vast shoulder of rukmiNi after winning the battle on that day).
Essence in this incident:
- bhagavAn’s prime consort SrI mahAlakshmi incarnates along with bhagavAn and enjoys him.
- When the devotees are in danger, bhagavAn will take big efforts to eliminate that danger.
Source – https://granthams.koyil.org/2023/10/09/krishna-leela-33-tamil/
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