Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 15.29

pūrva-siddha bhāva duńhāra udaya karila

daive vanamālī ghaṭaka śacī-sthāne āila

SYNONYMS

pūrva-siddha — as it is already settled; bhāva — ecstasy; duńhāra — of both of them; udaya — awakened; karila — was made; daive — also accidentally; vanamālī — Vanamālī; ghaṭaka — the marriage-maker; śacī-sthāne — at the place of Śacīmātā; āila — came.

TRANSLATION

When the Lord and Lakṣmīdevī met, their relationship awakened, having already been settled, and coincidentally the marriage-maker Vanamālī came to see Śacīmātā.

PURPORT

Vanamālī Ghaṭaka, a resident of Navadvīpa and a brāhmaṇa by caste, arranged the marriage of the Lord to Lakṣmīdevī. He was formerly Viśvāmitra, who negotiated the marriage of Lord Rāmacandra, and later he was the brāhmaṇa who negotiated the marriage of Lord Kṛṣṇa with Rukmiṇī. That same brāhmaṇa acted as the marriage-maker of the Lord in caitanya-līlā.

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