31 / The Kidnapping of Subhadrā and Lord Kṛṣṇa's Visiting Śrutadeva and Bahulāśva
After hearing this incident, King Parīkṣit became more inquisitive to hear about Kṛṣṇa and His pastimes, and thus he inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī how his grandmother Subhadrā was kidnapped by his grandfather Arjuna at the instigation of Lord Kṛṣṇa. King Parīkṣit was very much eager to learn about his grandfather's kidnapping and marriage of his grandmother.
Thus Śukadeva Gosvāmī began to narrate the story as follows: "Once upon a time, your grandfather Arjuna, the great hero, was visiting several holy places of pilgrimage, and while he was thus traveling all over he happened to come to the Prabhāsakṣetra. In the Prabhāsakṣetra he heard the news that Lord Balarāma was negotiating the marriage of Subhadrā, the daughter of Arjuna's maternal uncle, Vasudeva. Although her father, Vasudeva, and her brother, Kṛṣṇa, were not in agreement with Him, Balarāma was in favor of marrying Subhadrā to Duryodhana. Arjuna, however, desired to gain the hand of Subhadrā."
As he thought of Subhadrā and her beauty, Arjuna became more and more captivated with the idea of marrying her, and with a plan in mind he dressed himself like a Vaiṣṇava  sannyāsī , carrying a  tridaṇḍa  in his hand. The Māyāvādī  sannyāsī s take one  daṇḍa , or one rod, whereas the Vaiṣṇava  sannyāsī s take three  daṇḍa , or three rods. The three rods, or  tridaṇḍa , indicate that a Vaiṣṇava  sannyāsī  vows to render service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by his body, mind and words. The system of  tridaṇḍa-sannyāsa  has been in existence for a long time, and the Vaiṣṇava  sannyāsī s are called  tridaṇḍī s, or sometimes  tridaṇḍi-svāmī s or  tridaṇḍi-gosvāmī s.
Sannyāsī s are generally meant to travel all over the country for preaching work, but during the four months of the rainy season in India, from September through December, they do not travel, but take shelter in one
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