Subhadra??

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On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:52 -0400 "Kavicandra Swami (GBC Japan)"

<Kavicandra.Swami (AT) pamho (DOT) net> writes:

> Does anyone have information as to who is the mother of Subhadra

> {wife of

> Ajuna}

 

Dear Kavicandra Maharaja,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Srila Prabhupada translates in 10th Canto, Chapter 1, "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."

 

Also, Srila Prabhupada writes later in Chapter 4.9 10th Canto- "The

child, Yogamaya-devi, the younger sister of Lord Visnu, slipped upward

from Kamsa's hands and appeared in the sky as Devi, the goddess Durga,

with eight arms, completely equipped with weapons."

 

Purport:

"Kamsa tried to dash the child downward against a piece of stone, but

since she was Yogamaya, the younger sister of Lord Visnu, she slipped

upward and assumed the form of the goddess Durga. The word anuja, meaning

"the younger sister," is significant. When Visnu, or Krsna, took birth

from Devaki, He must have simultaneously taken birth from Yasoda also.

Otherwise how could Yogamaya have been anuja, the Lord's younger sister?"

 

My question is- Subhadra is Yogamaya and Durgadevi, and the wife of

Krsna's friend, Arjuna, then who is Durga devi the wife of Lord Siva?

Thank you.

 

your servant,

Mother S.dd