Study a Verse

• As Śrīla Prabhupāda often explained, the kṣatriyas, or warriors, would hunt in the forest for several purposes: to practice their fighting skills, to control the population of ferocious beasts, who were a threat to human beings, and to provide animals for Vedic sacrifices.
• The killed animals would be given new bodies by the power of the sacrifices.
• In fact, the King had become like modern sportsmen, who cruelly kill animals as a so-called hobby.

The purport's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Yearning and danger → Marriage and reciprocity. A wider range of divine relationships appears.

Chapters 50–59 of Canto 10: Dvārakā, Rukmiṇī and royal rescues. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 58: Kṛṣṇa Marries Five Princesses

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Lord Kṛṣṇa paid a visit to Queen Kuntī, and after He had offered her His respects, they inquired from each other about their family members. As Kuntīdevi recalled the various miseries Duryodhana had inflicted upon her and her sons, she remarked that Kṛṣṇa was their only protector.