Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 24:81-90

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Kandali-durväsayoù Parinayaù

The Wedding of Durväsä and Kandali

Chapter 24: Verse 81-90

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 81.Virtuous Ekänaàçä is the daughter of Vasudeva and the sister of Lord Kåñna. She is a partial expansion of Goddess Pärvati. She lives eternally. 82.Kalpa after kalpa she will be your beautiful wife. For now please happily engage your mind in austerities. 83.-84.Kandali will take birth as a banana tree on the earth. In another kalpa she will again be your beautiful, auspicious, exalted wife. The Vedas say that it is proper to punish the very proud. 85.After speaking these instructions to Durväsä, Lord Kåñna, who had assumed the form of a brähmana boy, suddenly disappeared. 86.Now free of his illusion, Durväsä Muni dedicated his heart to austerity. Kandali was born on the earth as a banana tree. 87.O sage, the demon Sähasika went to Tälavana and became an ass. At the appropriate time Tilottamä became Bäëäsura's daughter. 88.Killed by the Lord's cakra, the demon Sähasika attained Lord Kåñëa's lotus feet, which he yearned to attain, and which even the great sages attain only with the greatest difficulty. 89.Her desires fulfilled by embracing Lord Kåñëa's grandson, Tilottamä was able to return to her own abode. 90.Thus I have told you everything of this story in relation to Lord Kåñëa's pastimes, a story that is beautiful at every step. What more do you wish to hear?