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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 83: Verses 33-43
Daruka drove the chariot decorated with gold as all the kings looked on, 0 queen, and the Lord proceeded to Dwaraka even as the lion passes through a herd of deer. Lifting up their bows and prepared for a battle, some of those kings pursued my Lord with a view to obstructing Him on the way; but their attempt was no more successful than that of dogs to check the lion. Some of them fell in battle, their arms, legs and necks being torn asunder by the arrows discharged from the Sarnga bow of the Lord; while others abandoning the fight took to their heels. Then the Lord of the Yadus, like the very sun, entered His home, the city of Dwaraka, whose glories are sung in heaven as well as on earth. The city was specially decorated on this day with various ornamental arches and streamers which screened off the rays of the sun. My father honoured all his friends, relations and kinsmen with valuable textiles and ornaments, beds, seats and other articles. Though my dearest Lord lacks nothing being complete by Himself (in everyway) and delights only in the Self, yet my father out of love presented Him with a number of maid-servants, all kinds of wealth, foot-soldiers, elephants, chariots, horses and many valuable weapons. (0 queen !) we must have (in our previous lives) practised great austerities giving up attachment to all.
That is why in this birth we earned the privilege of actually working as His maid-servants in the household of our Lord. Rohini (on behalf of the sixteen thousand consorts) said : Having conquered many. a king during his expeditions for world conquest, Bhaumasura had made us, their daughters, captive and kept us confined in his palace. When, having put an end to Bhauma and all his forces in battle, He came to know of our existence in his palace. He liberated us and, though Perfect in Himself married us (all), knowing as He did that we ever contemplated on His lotus- feet, which bring emancipation from the bondage of birth and death. 0 virtuous lady, we crave not for universal sovereignty on earth, or for rulership of the heaven, for the enjoyments attaching to both these positions or for supernatural powers, for the position of Brahma, or for Liberation or for (the various forms of personal existence in) the (eternal) abode of God. We (only) desire that we may (continue to) bear on our head the glorious dust of the lotus-feet of our Lord, which is scented with the saffron on the bosom of Laksmi (the goddess of wealth). We long for the touch of the (sacred) feet of the glorious Lord, which the Gopas and the Gopis, the Bhila women, nay the very creepers and blades of grass craved for where He tended cows in Vraja (May this yearning of our heart be fulfilled by the Lord).
Thus ends the eighty-third discourse, in the latter half of Book Ten of the great and glorious Bhagavata-Purana, otherwise known as the Paramahamsa-Samhita.
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