Radharani and Chandravali

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Pandava Vijaya Prabhu asked:

 

> in that story where Radharani and Chandravali are dropped by putana-

> where did Chandravali fall and who took her in and raised her.

 

Actually the story is spiritually very twisted and very confidential. I am

not sure whether I myself understand it. Here is what I make of it from Rupa

Goswami's Lalita Madhava:

 

Requested by Brahma, Lord Hari's yogamaya potency removed these two infant

girls (Chandravali & Radharani resp.) from the wombs of the wives of

Candrabhanu and Vrsabhanu and placed them in the womb of (mountain king)

Vindhya's wife. He had earlier prayed to Brahma for a daughter.

 

Putana kidnapped the two daughters when they took birth. But when King

Vindhya's chief priest chanted a demon-killing mantra, Putana's heart became

struck with fear. As she was hastily flying over Vidarbha province the first

of her victims (Chandravali or Rukmini) dropped from her and fell into a

river's current.

 

Maharaja Bhismaka found the Vindhya's first daughter as she was floating in

the river's current.

 

And the second daughter Radha was found by Paurnamasi in Vrindavan alongwith

five sisters where she was dropped by Putana.

 

But due to fate they were again united in Vrindavan in the following way.

 

Candravali was the granddaughter of Karala. Jambavan, who lived in the caves

of Govardhana Hill and the Vindhya Hills, kidnapped the five-year old

Candravali, (now the daughter of Bhismaka) and forcibly took her from

Kundina City (capital of Vidarbha) to Vrindavana where she again became

Chandrabhanu's daughter. He did this on the orders of (the goddess Durga,

who was) staying then in the Vindhya Hills.

 

[Comment: Goddess Durga is the daughter of Yasoda. After Maharaja Vasudeva

brought her back to Mathura, and after King Kamsa unsuccessfully tried to

kill her, she escaped to the Vindhya Hills.]

 

Gargi: (aside) I have heard from my father's mouth that although the

(gopis,) headed by Candrabhanu's daughter Candravali, and the

(Dvaraka-queens), headed by Bhismaka's daughter, Rukmini, are expansions of

the same spiritual potency, nevertheless, their forms are separate and

distinct. Now it is said that with the aid of the yogamaya potency, each

gopi is identical with a specific queen, and each pair of gopi and queen is

a single person in a single form. It must be so. Later I shall perhaps

understand it. What can I understand now of these confidential matters?

 

Your aspiring servant, Nayana-ranjana Das Brahmacari.

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PAMHO.ALGTSP.

thanks,

ys

Pandava vijaya dasa

At 09:40 PM 8/29/01 +0630, you wrote:

>Pandava Vijaya Prabhu asked:

>

>> in that story where Radharani and Chandravali are dropped by putana-

>> where did Chandravali fall and who took her in and raised her.

>

>Actually the story is spiritually very twisted and very confidential. I am

>not sure whether I myself understand it. Here is what I make of it from Rupa

>Goswami's Lalita Madhava:

>

>Requested by Brahma, Lord Hari's yogamaya potency removed these two infant

>girls (Chandravali & Radharani resp.) from the wombs of the wives of

>Candrabhanu and Vrsabhanu and placed them in the womb of (mountain king)

>Vindhya's wife. He had earlier prayed to Brahma for a daughter.

>

>Putana kidnapped the two daughters when they took birth. But when King

>Vindhya's chief priest chanted a demon-killing mantra, Putana's heart became

>struck with fear. As she was hastily flying over Vidarbha province the first

>of her victims (Chandravali or Rukmini) dropped from her and fell into a

>river's current.

>

>Maharaja Bhismaka found the Vindhya's first daughter as she was floating in

>the river's current.

>

>And the second daughter Radha was found by Paurnamasi in Vrindavan alongwith

>five sisters where she was dropped by Putana.

>

>But due to fate they were again united in Vrindavan in the following way.

>

>Candravali was the granddaughter of Karala. Jambavan, who lived in the caves

>of Govardhana Hill and the Vindhya Hills, kidnapped the five-year old

>Candravali, (now the daughter of Bhismaka) and forcibly took her from

>Kundina City (capital of Vidarbha) to Vrindavana where she again became

>Chandrabhanu's daughter. He did this on the orders of (the goddess Durga,

>who was) staying then in the Vindhya Hills.

>

>[Comment: Goddess Durga is the daughter of Yasoda. After Maharaja Vasudeva

>brought her back to Mathura, and after King Kamsa unsuccessfully tried to

>kill her, she escaped to the Vindhya Hills.]

>

> Gargi: (aside) I have heard from my father's mouth that although the

>(gopis,) headed by Candrabhanu's daughter Candravali, and the

>(Dvaraka-queens), headed by Bhismaka's daughter, Rukmini, are expansions of

>the same spiritual potency, nevertheless, their forms are separate and

>distinct. Now it is said that with the aid of the yogamaya potency, each

>gopi is identical with a specific queen, and each pair of gopi and queen is

>a single person in a single form. It must be so. Later I shall perhaps

>understand it. What can I understand now of these confidential matters?

>

>Your aspiring servant, Nayana-ranjana Das Brahmacari.

>

>