98 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 3
entered the house of the demon, all the princesses were enlivened with
joy and offered to become His wives because the Lord is the only friend of
the distressed. Unless the Lord accepted them, there would be no chance
of their being married because the demon kidnapped them from their
fathers’ custody and therefore no one would agree to marry them.
According to Vedic society, girls are transferred from the custody of the
father to the custody of the husband. Since these princesses had already
been taken away from the custody of their fathers, it would have been
difficult for them to have any husband other than the Lord Himself.
TEXT 8
meat Bed THAME TAH |
aad ATE WiagEy Aaa Il ll
asam muhurta ekasmin
nanagaresu yositam
savidham jagrhe panin
anurupah sva-mayaya
asam—all those; muhurta—at one time; ekasmin—simultaneously ; nana-
garesu—in different compartments; yositam—of the women; sa-vidham—in
perfect rituals; jagrhe—accepted; panin—hands; anurupah—exactly to
match; sva-mayaya—by His internal potency.
TRANSLATION
All those princesses were lodged in different apartments, and the Lord
simultaneously assumed different bodily expansionsexactly matching each
and every princess, and He accepted their hands in perfect rituals by His
internal potency.
PURPORT
In the Brahmgq-samhita the Lord is described as follows in regard to His
innumerable plenary expansions:
advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam
adyam purana-purusam navayauvanam ca
vedesu durllabham adurllabham atma-bhaktau
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami (Bs. 5.33)
“The Lord, Govinda, whom I worship, is the original Personality of
Godhead. He is nondifferent from His innumerable plenary expansions,
