Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.1.28

kaccid varūthādhipatir yadūnāḿ

pradyumna āste sukham ańga vīraḥ

yaḿ rukmiṇī bhagavato 'bhilebhe

ārādhya viprān smaram ādi-sarge

SYNONYMS

kaccit — whether; varūtha — of the military; adhipatiḥ — commander-in-chief; yadūnām — of the Yadus; pradyumnaḥ — the son of Kṛṣṇa named Pradyumna; āste — is; sukham — happy; ańga — O Uddhava; vīraḥ — the great warrior; yam — whom; rukmiṇī — the wife of Kṛṣṇa named Rukmiṇī; bhagavataḥ — from the Personality of Godhead; abhilebhe — got as a prize; ārādhya — pleasing; viprān — brāhmaṇas; smaram — Cupid (Kāmadeva); ādi-sarge — in his previous life.

TRANSLATION

O Uddhava, please tell me how is Pradyumna, the commander-in-chief of the Yadus, who was Cupid in a former life? Rukmiṇī bore him as her son from Lord Kṛṣṇa, by the grace of brāhmaṇas whom she pleased.

PURPORT

According to Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, Smara (Cupid, or Kāmadeva) is one of the eternal associates of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Jīva Gosvāmī has explained this very elaborately in his treatise Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha.

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