Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 9:21-30

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Sri Nanda-putrotsava

The Festival of Sri Nanda’s son

Chapter 9: Verse 21-30

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 21.When after this time they still could not see Lord Krsna, Drona and Dhara decided to enter a lake of fire. 22.-23.Then a disembodied voice, its speaker seeing that they wished to die, said, “O best of the Vasus, in your next birth, on the earth, you will see Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whom the yogis cannot see, whom the philosophers cannot attain by their thinking, to whom Brahma and the demigods bow down. He will become your son. 24.Hearing this, Drona and Dhara happily returned to their home. Taking birth on the earth, they saw Lord Krsna face to face. 25.Thus I have described the activities of Nanda and Yasoda. Now please hear the activities of Rohini when she was a demigoddesses. 26.O sage, one time, on the day most suitable to conceive a child, saintly Aditi, the mother of the demigods sent a message of this to her husband, Kasyapa Muni. 27.The beautiful goddess, carefully bathed and wearing jewel ornaments, decorated and dressed herself very elaborately. In the mirror she carefully examined her face,... 28. ...which was decorated with dots of musk and sindura, beautiful with patra ornaments and jewel earrings,... 29 ...beautiful as an autumn moon, its autumn lotus eyes splendid with mascara, its beautiful nose decorated with an elephant pearl, its mouth gracefully curved in a smile,... 30. ...its teeth splendid like ripe pomegranate seeds, its beautiful always smiling lips splendid like ripe bimba fruits,...