Originally posted by: Viswasruti
Hi NiklausFan, happy to see you here after a long time.š¤
Here is the info regarding Subhadra from my limited knowledge which I am sharing with you all .ā¤ļø
There were two brothers and a sister in which the Baldau and Subhadra were real bro&Sis and Subhadra was the younger sister of Krishna and Balram, wife of Arjun and mother of Abhimanyu.She is the daughter of Vasudeva and Rohini. Subhadraās character is chronicled in Hari-Vamsam, Srimad-Bhagavatam and the Mahabharata with some aberrations.
Subhadra is the only daughter of Vasudeva, born to him by his wife Rohini Devi. She is born after Krishna rescues their father, Vasudeva, from prison and is thus much younger than both her brothers. Subhadra, therefore, grows up in comfort as the princess and escapes the travails that haunted her family before her birth.
Srimad-Bhagavatam: (SB: 10.2.6ā7)
To protect the Yadus, His personal devotees, from Kaį¹saās attack, Lord Vishnu ordered Yoga-mÄyÄ as follows:
O My potency, who are worshipable for the entire world and whose nature is to bestow good fortune upon all living entities, go to Vraja, where there live many cowherd men and their wives. In that very beautiful land, where many cows reside, Rohiį¹Ä«, the wife of Vasudeva, is living at the home of Nanda MahÄrÄja. Other wives of Vasudeva are also living there incognito because of fear of Kaį¹sa. Please go there and reside in the womb of Rohini till she reaches to Mathura and meet her husband after we conquer the Mathura from Kans. It means -- Subhadra was not less than 10--11 years younger than Bal&Kri.
Krishna further directs transfer of Blabhadra (Sankarshana), from the womb of Devaki to that of Rohini (Vasudeva s first wife). So Rohini is a surrogate mother to Balram. I think because of this cause, the CVs neglected Rohini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!š²Reasearch research they did you see.....
In the Bhagavatam, a daughter was born to Nanda and Yasoda (indeed Yogamaya) but she is never directly referred as Subhadra. So Subhadra was born after Balram and Krishna .
gaccha devi vrajam bhadre gopa-gobhir alankrtam
rohini vasudevasya bharyaste nanda-gokule
anyas ca kamsa-samvigna vivaresu vasanti hiThe word bhadra In sanskrit means auspicious.
Krsna says his Yogamaya will be known as Durga, Bhadra-Kali, Vijaya, Vaisnavi, etc, but Subhadra misses a mention there.
However,
In the Harivamsa (1.35.5ā6)
lebhe jyestham sutam ramam saranam satham eva ca
durdamam damanam svabhram pindarakam usinaramcitram nama kumarim cha rohini tanaya dasa
citra subhadra iti punar-vikhyata kuru-nandana.Vasudeva begot his eldest son Rama (Balarama) in Rohini; and their other sons are: Sarana, Satha, Durdama, Damana, Svabhra, Pindaraka, and Usinara; O descendant of Kuru, they also had a daughter by the name of Citra, who is renowned by the name of Subhadra.
In the Mahabharata: (Adi-parva 221.17)
mamaisa bhagini partha saranasya sahodara
yadi te vartate buddhirvaksysmi pitaram svayamThis is my sister, O Partha, and born of the same mother as Sarana (this refers to Rohini, the mother of Sarana). May you be blessed. Her name is Bhadra and she is the favorite daughter of my father.
What can be deduced from the above is that Subhadra was an amsa of Krsna (The Mahamaya of the supreme godhead) manifested as yogamaya (inner spiritual force) into the womb of Rohini.
Thanks for sharing Madhuri
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