SB 10.61.18

SB 10.61.18

Devanagari

दीप्तिमांस्ताम्रतप्ताद्या रोहिण्यास्तनया हरे: । प्रद्यम्नाच्चानिरुद्धोऽभूद्रुक्‍मवत्यां महाबल: । पुत्र्यां तु रुक्‍मिणो राजन् नाम्ना भोजकटे पुरे ॥ १८ ॥

Verse text

dīptimāṁs tāmrataptādyā rohiṇyās tanayā hareḥ pradyamnāc cāniruddho ’bhūd rukmavatyāṁ mahā-balaḥ putryāṁ tu rukmiṇo rājan nāmnā bhojakaṭe pure

Synonyms

dīptimān tāmratapta ādyāḥ — Dīptimān, Tāmratapta and others ; rohiṇyāḥ of Rohiṇī (chief of the remaining 16,100 queens) ; tanayāḥ sons ; hareḥ of Lord Kṛṣṇa ; pradyumnāt from Pradyumna ; ca and ; aniruddhaḥ Aniruddha ; abhūt was born ; rukmavatyām in Rukmavatī ; mahā balaḥ — greatly powerful ; putryām in the daughter ; tu indeed ; rukmiṇaḥ of Rukmī ; rājan O King (Parīkṣit) ; nāmnā by name ; bhojakaṭe pure in the city of Bhojakaṭa (Rukmī’s domain) .

Translation

Dīptimān, Tāmratapta and others were the sons of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Rohiṇī. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s son Pradyumna fathered the greatly powerful Aniruddha in the womb of Rukmavatī, the daughter of Rukmī. O King, this took place while they were living in the city of Bhojakaṭa.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Dīptimān, Tāmratapta and others were the sons of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Rohiṇī. Lord Kṛṣṇa's son Pradyumna fathered the greatly powerful Aniruddha in the womb of Rukmavatī, the daughter of Rukmī. O King, this took place while they were living in the city of Bhojakaṭa. KB 10.61.18 Besides these eight chief queens, Kṛṣṇa had 16,100 other wives, and all of them also had ten sons each. The eldest son of Rukmiṇī, Pradyumna, was married with Māyāvatī from his very birth, and afterwards he married Rukmavatī, the daughter of his maternal uncle, Rukmī. From Rukmavatī, Pradyumna had a son named Aniruddha.

Purport

Lord Kṛṣṇa’s eight principal queens are Rukmiṇī, Satyabhāmā, Jāmbavatī, Nāgnajitī, Kālindī, Lakṣmaṇā, Mitravindā and Bhadrā. Having mentioned all their sons, Śukadeva Gosvāmī now refers to the sons of the other 16,100 queens by mentioning the two principal sons of Queen Rohiṇī, the foremost of the remaining queens.

Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Having named the sons of the principal eight queens, now the sons of Rohini the chief of the sixteen thousand one hundred queens are named.

Purport (Jiva Goswami)

Rohiṇī was the chief of the other sixteen thousand one hundred queens.

Purport (Sanatana Goswami)

Rohiṇī was the chief of the other sixteen thousand one hundred queens. The word ca means “but” to introduce a new topic, about grandsons. Also Rukmī was an enemy of the Lord. Rukmavatī gave birth to Aniruddha in his city. In astonishment Śukadeva says “O king!” Or Aniruddha was shining (rājan).