Pradyumna's Kidnap

🤗 Hey guys! How are you? Edited by aishi.muffin - 13 years ago

Edited by Debipriya - 13 years ago

^ Thanks a lot Priya di! That answered a lot of my questions, very useful. And will definitely check the links. 🤗 So Bhanmathi was not even a wife of Duryodan?

Oh Aishiii! You are here !! 🤗

So, about Bhanmati, let me try to clear the confusion a bit 😆.  Actually here we are discussing about two characters with the same name 😆.  

The first one was a princesss of Kashi, who became the wife of Duryodhan. I guess her role is limited inside the Kuru Raajprasaad only, haven't heard much about her. 

Now the second Bhanmati, who took charge of Pradyumna, was the wife of a servant of Samaharasur,. She was very sad for not having a child and used to pray to the Lord for having one. One day, when her husband (who used to work in Sambharasur's kitchen) found a baby inside a giant fish,  Bhanmati took it with her as her own child. This child became Pradyumna after growning up. 

Now something about the past of Bhanmati- as I've mentioned before- she was originally a nartaki of the Lord, who prayed for and got the boon of the 'Knowledge of magical powers' from the Lord, with only one condition that she will use it for the welfare of creation. But she became obsessed with her power and used it for her personal aim and the Lord gave her the punishment to have a mortal life. Thus she became Bhanmati (Pradyumna's Mother), in her next birth. 

At the end of the story of Pradyumna, we can see that, after Bhanmati's karm-phal (which was the outcome of her wrong deeds) ends,  she remembers her Original Self and helps Pradyumna to acheive his aim (i.e.-to kill Sambharasur) and goes back to her original state of serving the Lord. The story is shown very very nicely in SK, I 've written here the SK version only, I loved watching all those episodes!! ⭐️ (Though they extened the story too much 😔 )

Now a bit about Pradyumna's kidnap- after his birth, Sambharasur kidnapped him and wanted to kill him. But our own Naaradji makes him confused with his logics 😉 and Sambharasur throws away the baby in the water to die, but that baby is taken inside by a fish, which eventually gets caught by  and brought into Sambharasur's kitchen, from where the husband of Bhanmati finds him. 

Debipriya

From what I read, after Kama was incinerated by Lord Shiva, Rati was distraught, but a divine voice told her that she'd get back her husband Kama.

Kama was  reborn as Pradhyumna and kidnapped by Shambarasur, and Rati joined Shambasura as his maid, not his wife, and took the name Mayavati.  When Pradhyumna grew up, Narada one day told Mayavati that Pradhyumna was none other than Kama.  Trained by Mayavati, Pradhyumna managed to kill Shambarasura in mortal combat, and then Pradhyumna & Mayavati returned to Krishna & Rukmini.

One thing I've wondered - did Pradhyumna's re-union w/ Mayavati co-incide w/ Shiva's marriage to Parvati?  I read that after the marriage of Shiva & Parvati, the devas asked him to forgive Kama & re-unite him w/ Rati, and Shiva agreed, saying that he too was beholden to Kama, since he was in love w/ Parvati.  But did that happen soon, or did it take ages for that to happen?

Hey Vrish, nice to see you in this forum. :) And thanks for the story about Kaam Dev and Rati. I heard somewhere that Kaam Dev was reborn as Pradyumna, but I never knew about Rati being reborn as Mayavati.

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@ Vrish,

Hey Priya di, thank you so much for your answer! Now my confusion is totally cleared. Sorry for the late reply btw 😆 Thanks guys, for answering. Now I know there are two Bhanumathis.