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pleasures to overcome his longing for his erstwhile home- Vaikuntha.
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and married the gazelle-eyed Rukminī, the princess of Vidarbha whose charms were enhanced by many of the qualities and who was a veritable bow-staff of Cupid.
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He begot a son called Pradyumna on her and as the spring brings joy to the wood by putting the mango tree in fresh blossom, Krsna, the Miracle Man (māyāmanuja) delighted the whole world by giving it his son.
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Pradyumna, the Lord of Rati, was the second incarnation of Cupid that was burnt with the fire produced from his third eye by Samkara, begot on her a son named Aniruddha.
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Once at night, Usā, the daughter of Bāna, saw Aniruddha in a dream. His eyes were large like bloomed lotuses, his figure extremely handsome and in complexion he was dark like a rain-cloud.
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She held him immediately with her branch-like arms and pressed him with her breasts resembling bunches of flowers. She hugged him as passionately as a creeper entwines a young mango-tree.
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Then that damsel all of a sudden awoke and not finding that charming young man in her arms cried for long, in her bed; the girl, greatly dejected, lamented thus :
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You have deserted me, inflamed with passion and in misfortune. Where have you, O handsome one, gone ? I saw your lotuslike face for half a moment only and it
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