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The Lord's Pastimes Out of Vṇdāvana
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TEXT 5
प्रियं प्रभुर्ग्राम्य इव प्रियाया विधित्सुराच्छेद् द्युतरुं यदर्थे । वज्रयाद्रवत्तं सगणो रुषान्धः क्रीडामृगो नूनमयं वधूनाम् ॥ ५ ॥
priyam prabhur grāmya iva priyāyā vidhitsur ārcchad dyutarum yad-arthe vajry ādravat tam sagaṇo ruṣāndhaḥ krīḍā-mṛgo nūnam ayam vadhūnām
priyam —of the dear wife;  prabhuḥ —the Lord;  grāmyaḥ —ordinary living being;  iva —in the manner of;  priyāyāḥ —just to please;  vidhitsuḥ —wishing;  ārcchat —brought about;  dyutarum —the  pārijāta  flower tree;  yat —for which;  arthe —in the matter of;  vajrī —Indra, the King of heaven;  ādravat tam —went forward to fight with Him;  sa-gaṇaḥ —with full strength;  ruṣā —in anger;  andhaḥ —blind;  krīḍā-mṛgaḥ —henpecked;  nūnam —of course;  ayam —this;  vadhūnām —of the wives.
TRANSLATION
Just to please His dear wife, the Lord brought back the  pārijāta  tree from heaven, just as an ordinary husband would do. But Indra, the King of heaven, induced by his wives (henpecked as he was), ran after the Lord with full force to fight Him.
PURPORT
The Lord once went to the heavenly planet to present an earring to Aditi, the mother of the demigods, and His wife Satyabhāmā also went with Him. There is a special flowering tree called the  pārijāta  which grows only in the heavenly planets, and Satyabhāmā wanted this tree. Just to please His wife, like an ordinary husband, the Lord brought back the tree, and this enraged Vajrī, or the controller of the thunderbolt. Indra's wives inspired him to run after the Lord to fight, and Indra, because he was a henpecked husband and also a fool, listened to them and dared to fight with Kṛṣṇa. He was a fool on this occasion because he forgot that everything belongs to the Lord.