Few questions

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> > 2. Who was the mother of Subhadr€j…?

>

> From Sacinandana Swami:

>

> The Mahabharata Adi Parva has a section called Subhadra-karana Parva.

> Therein we find that Subhadra devi is the favorite daughter of Vasudeva

> and the sister of Lord Krsna. But note: here Krsna tells Arjuna that

> Subhadra is the "uterine sister of Sarana" (in Sanskrit, *saranasya

> sahodara*). To be more clear, Subhadra is born from the same womb as

> Sarana. I consulted another book that gives a list of wives and children

> of Vasudeva (Krsna's father) that is taken from the Padma Purana.

> According to this, Sarana was born from the womb of Vasudeva's wife

> Rohini. Thus Subhadra would be the maternal sister of Balarama, and the

> paternal sister of Lord Krsna, whose own mother is Vasudeva's wife Devaki.

> This could be verifed by checking the original Sanskrit of the Padma

> Purana. Unfortunately the book I consulted does not give a chapter and

> verse reference for that Purana, and I don't have the time to hunt for the

> original reference myself.

 

In SB 10.1.56 we find:

"Each year thereafter, in due course of time, Devaki, the mother of God and

all the demigods, gave birth to a child. Thus she bore eight sons, one after

another, and a daughter named Subhadra."

 

SB 10.3.51 says: "When Vasudeva reached the house of Nanda Maharaja, he saw

that all the cowherd men were fast asleep. Thus he placed his own son on the

bed of Yasoda, picked up her daughter, an expansion of Yogamaya, and then

returned to his residence, the prison house of Kamsa."

 

In SB 10.1 Additional Notes for this Chapter, it is stated: "In Candi, in

the Markandeya Purana, Eleventh Chapter, Mahamaya says, "During the

twenty-eighth yuga in the period of Vaivasvata Manu, I shall take birth as

the daughter of Yasoda and be known as Vindhyacala-vasini."

 

As we all know, Subhadra and Krishna were swapped, whilst Balarama appeared

to be a miscarriage of Mother Devaki. So how do we resolve the quotes from

the Padma and Markandeya Puranas?

 

Your servant,

Vraja Kumara das