Revatii



Revatii (रेवती) is Balaraama's true love and marital spouse. She may very well be one of the two primary aspects of second-level identification for the first-level goddess Abhijit, the simpler of the two identities being Raadhaaraanii. Revatii and Balaraama protect monogamous love, Jainism and Scientology being the contextual and ecclesiastic partnership within which this protection enjoys its style of life. Raadhaa and K,r.s.na have a life inward of what governance is at their level (United Nations represents such at our present level), but are portrayed to the likes of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) within a violence-fighting context, which is what spirituality is in association with what illegal drugs are at our base level of this universe.

From A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology, and religion, geography, history, and literature: "Daughter of King Raivata and wife of Bala-rāma. She was so beautiful that her father, thinking no one upon earth worthy of her, repaired to the god Brahmā to consult him about a husband. Brahmā delivered a long discourse on the glories of Vishnu, and directed Raivata to proceed to Dwārakā, where a portion of Vishnu was incarnate in the person of Bala-rāma. Ages had elapsed while Raivata was in heaven without his knowledge. When he returned to earth, 'he found the race of men dwindled in stature, reduced in vigour, and enfeebled in intellect.' He went to Bala-rāma and gave him Revatī, but that hero, 'beholding the damsel of excessively lofty height, he shortened her with the end of his ploughshare, and she became his wife.' She had two sons. Revatī is said to have taken part with her husband in his drinking bouts."

From ;Sriimad-Bhaagavatam, canto 9, chapter 3, verses 29-36:

ककुद्मी रेवतीं कन्यां स्वामादाय विभुं गत: । पुत्र्यावरं परिप्रष्टुं ब्रह्मलोकमपावृतम् ॥ २९ ॥

kakudmī revatīṁ kanyāṁ svām ādāya vibhuṁ gataḥ putryā varaṁ paripraṣṭuṁ brahmalokam apāvṛtam

"Taking his own daughter, Revatī, Kakudmī went to Lord Brahmā in Brahmaloka, which is transcendental to the three modes of material nature, and inquired about a husband for her."

आवर्तमाने गान्धर्वे स्थितोऽलब्धक्षण: क्षणम् । तदन्त आद्यमानम्य स्वाभिप्रायं न्यवेदयत् ॥ ३० ॥

āvartamāne gāndharve sthito ’labdha-kṣaṇaḥ kṣaṇam tad-anta ādyam ānamya svābhiprāyaṁ nyavedayat

"When Kakudmī arrived there, Lord Brahmā was engaged in hearing musical performances by the Gandharvas and had not a moment to talk with him. Therefore Kakudmī waited, and at the end of the musical performances he offered his obeisances to Lord Brahmā and thus submitted his long-standing desire."

तच्छ्रुत्वा भगवान् ब्रह्मा प्रहस्य तमुवाच ह । अहो राजन् निरुद्धास्ते कालेन हृदि ये कृता: ॥ ३१ ॥

tac chrutvā bhagavān brahmā prahasya tam uvāca ha  aho rājan niruddhās te    kālena hṛdi ye kṛtāḥ

"After hearing his words, Lord Brahmā, who is most powerful, laughed loudly and said to Kakudmī: O King, all those whom you may have decided within the core of your heart to accept as your son-in-law have passed away in the course of time."

तत्पुत्रपौत्रनप्तृणां गोत्राणि च न श‍ृण्महे । कालोऽभियातस्त्रिणवचतुर्युगविकल्पित: ॥ ३२ ॥

tat putra-pautra-naptṝṇāṁ gotrāṇi ca na śṛṇmahe kālo ’bhiyātas tri-ṇava- catur-yuga-vikalpitaḥ

"Twenty-seven catur-yugas have already passed. Those upon whom you may have decided are now gone, and so are their sons, grandsons and other descendants. You cannot even hear about their names."

तद् गच्छ देवदेवांशो बलदेवो महाबल: । कन्यारत्नमिदं राजन् नररत्नाय देहि भो: ॥ ३३ ॥

tad gaccha deva-devāṁśo baladevo mahā-balaḥ kanyā-ratnam idaṁ rājan nara-ratnāya dehi bhoḥ

"O King, leave here and offer your daughter to Lord Baladeva, who is still present. He is most powerful. Indeed, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose plenary portion is Lord Viṣṇu. Your daughter is fit to be given to Him in charity."

भुवो भारावताराय भगवान् भूतभावन: । अवतीर्णो निजांशेन पुण्यश्रवणकीर्तन: ॥ ३४ ॥

bhuvo bhārāvatārāya bhagavān bhūta-bhāvanaḥ avatīrṇo nijāṁśena puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ

"Lord Baladeva is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One who hears and chants about Him is purified. Because He is always the well-wisher of all living entities, He has descended with all His paraphernalia to purify the entire world and lessen its burden."

इत्यादिष्टोऽभिवन्द्याजं नृप: स्वपुरमागत: । त्यक्तं पुण्यजनत्रासाद् भ्रातृभिर्दिक्ष्ववस्थितै: ॥ ३५ ॥

ity ādiṣṭo ’bhivandyājaṁ nṛpaḥ sva-puram āgataḥ tyaktaṁ puṇya-jana-trāsād bhrātṛbhir dikṣv avasthitaiḥ

"Having received this order from Lord Brahmā, Kakudmī offered obeisances unto him and returned to his own residence. He then saw that his residence was vacant, having been abandoned by his brothers and other relatives, who were living in all directions because of fear of such higher living beings as the Yakṣas."

सुतां दत्त्वानवद्याङ्गीं बलाय बलशालिने । बदर्याख्यं गतो राजा तप्तुं नारायणाश्रमम् ॥ ३६ ॥

sutāṁ dattvānavadyāṅgīṁ balāya bala-śāline badary-ākhyaṁ gato rājā taptuṁ nārāyaṇāśramam

"Thereafter, the King gave his most beautiful daughter in charity to the supremely powerful Baladeva and then retired from worldly life and went to Badarikāśrama to please Nara-Nārāyaṇa."



From H. H. Wilson's translation of Vishnu Purana, Book IV, Chapter I (p. 248): "Saryati (the fourth son of the Manu) had a daughter named Sukanya, who was married to the holy sage Chyavana: he had, also, a righteous son named Anarta."