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Chapter Thirty-Four
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As soon as he remembered the enmity from his previous birth, he separated the child Pradyumna from his mother. The Acharya says, "Shame on this enmity that increases sin!" ||222|| Pradyumna was protected from death by his own accumulated merit from his previous births. It is only the power of merit that protects from death. ||223|| Hearing this account of Pradyumna, narrated by the Jina Simandhar, the Chakravarti King Padmaratha bowed down in great joy. ||224|| Narada, also overcome with joy, bowed down to the Jina and flew up into the sky, reaching the mountain called Meghakuta. ||225|| There, he congratulated King Kalasambara on the occasion of his son's birth and praised the queen Kanakmala, who had now become a mother. ||226|| Seeing Rukmini's son, attended by hundreds of young men, Narada was filled with hidden joy and experienced supreme ecstasy. ||227|| After bowing down to Kalasambara and others, Narada received their blessings and, flying up into the sky, reached Dwaraka. ||228|| He narrated the story of Pradyumna to the Yadavas, telling them everything as it happened, as he had seen it, and as he had heard it. ||229|| Then, with his lotus-like face blooming, he saw Queen Rukmini and told her everything that Simandhar Jina had said. ||230|| He said, "O Rukmini! I saw your son playing in the house of the king of the Vidyadharas, Kalasambara. He is as handsome as a Devakumar." ||231|| "Having attained sixteen merits and having collected the knowledge of the Prajnapti, your son will surely come in his sixteenth year." ||232|| "O Rukmini! When the time of his arrival comes, the peacock in your garden will cry out loudly, announcing the good news, out of season." ||233|| "The jeweled fountain in your garden, which is now dry, will be filled with lotus-filled water at the time of his arrival." ||234|| "The Ashoka tree, which announces the removal of sorrow, will sprout leaves and shoots out of season, to remove your sorrow." ||235||