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CHAPTER SIX By chance, then an embryo developed and enlarged her womb, but Rukmiņi's womb remained the same size because of her superior embryo. : One day Satyabhāmā said to Vişņu: "That wife of yours announced an embryo deceitfully. Look at the womb of the two (of us).” Just then a slave-girl delighted Kļşņa: " Queen Rukmini has borne now a son, noble, gold color. " Hearing that, Satyabhāmā, ashamed, trembling with anger, bore a son, named Bhānuka, just as she was going to her house. Kșşņa, delighted, went to Rukmiņi's house then. Seated on a lionthrone to the north, he had his son brought and looked at him. “Let him be named Pradyumna, because he lights, un all the quarters, ” flattering the child with these words, Janārdana remained for a moment.
Kidnaping of Pradyumna (130–152)
Then the god Dhumaketu, because of former enmity, came disguised as Rukmiņi, took the child from Kṛṣṇa and went to Vaitaạnya. He went to the garden Bhūtaramana on Tankaśilā and thought: “Shall I kill him by striking him? In that case, he does not suffer. If I abandon him on top of the rock, he, without food and suffering from thirst, crying, will die.” Dropping him down there, he went away.
The boy, whose life could not be taken away by any device because he had his final body, 191 fell uninjured in a spot marked by many leaves. At dawn the aerial car of the Khacārin Kālasaṁvara stalled there, as he was going to his own city from Agnijvālapura. Wondering at the reason for the car's stalling, the lord of Khecaras descended and saw below the child with a great brilliance. Thinking, “He is some distinguished person, the reason for the car's stalling,” he delivered a son to his wife Kanakamālā by means of the boy. Having gone to his own city, Meghakūța, the Khecara said, “My wife was
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