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other wives, and still she was attached to Krsna. In order to encourage her,
He immediately expanded Himself into seven. The purport is that Krsna is
one, but He has unlimited forms of expansions. He married many hundreds
of thousands of wives, but this does not mean that while He was with one
wife the others were bereft of His association. Krsna could associate with
each and every wife by His expansions.

When Krsna brought the bulls under His control by bridling their noses,
their strength and pride were immediately smashed. The name and fame
which the bulls had attained was thus vanquished. When the bulls had been
bridled by Krsna, He pulled them strongly, just as a child pulls a toy
wooden bull. Upon seeing this advantage of Krsna, King Nagnajit became
very much astonished and immediately, with great pleasure, brought his
daughter Satya before Krsna and handed her over to Him. Krsna also
immediately accepted Satya as His wife. Then there was a marriage cere-
mony with great pomp. The queens of King Nagnajit also were very much
pleased because their daughter Satya got Krsna as her husband. Since the
King and queens were very pleased on this auspicious occasion, there was a
celebration all over the city in honor of the marriage. Everywhere was
heard the sounds of the conchshell and kettledrum and various other
vibrations of music and song. The learned brahmanas began to shower their
blessings upon the newly married couple. In jubilation, all the inhabitants
of the city dressed themselves with colorful garments and ornaments. King
Nagnajit was so pleased that he began to give a dowry to the daughter and
son-in-law, as follows.

First of all he gave them ten thousand cows and three thousand well-
dressed young maidservants, ornamented up to their necks. This system of
dowry is still current in India especially for the ksatriya princes. Also,
when a ksatriya prince is married, at least a dozen maidservants of similar
age are given along with the bride. After giving the cows and maidservants,
the King also enriched the dowry by giving 9,000 elephants and a hundred
times more chariots than elephants. This means that he gave 900,000
chariots. And he gave a hundred times more horses than chariots, or
90,000,000 horses, and a hundred times more slaves than horses. Such
slaves and maidservants were maintained by the royal princes with all pro-
visions, as if they were their own children or family members. After giving
this dowry as described, the King of the Koala Province bade his daughter
and great son-in-law be seated on a chariot. He allowed them to go to
their home, guarded by a division of well-equipped soldiers. When they
were travelling fast to their new home, his heart became enlivened with
affection for them.
