Returning to Devaka, he married all of the women at the same moment (ekasmin muhurte), which was chosen by specialists because it would bring the most auspicious results. He expanded himself into as many forms as there were brides. Though he had one body, it appeared in separate and he controlled all of them. But one should not explain the phrase tavad rupa dhara as simply a multiplication of bodies (kaya vyuha), for Narada says later, "How astonishing that Krsna with one form, simultaneously married sixteen thousand women in different places." Not only that, but his associates such as his father and mother and friends, also arrived in all the houses at the same time. Krsna, by his inconceivable energy, manifested many forms of each of his associates as well. Krsna was complete in each house (avayaya), not partially there as an amsa. Bhagavatamrta says: the prakasa form is not different at all from the original.

He married them simultaneously in different places at an auspicious moment like sun rise. He took as many forms as there were brides. This one form appeared in many places. It was not a different form. It will later be said: citraṁ bataitad ekena vapuṣā yugapat pṛthak gṛheṣu dvy-aṣṭa-sāhasraṁ striya eka udāvahat It is quite amazing that in a single body Lord Kṛṣṇa simultaneously married sixteen thousand women, each in a separate palace. SB 10.69.2 Because of his inconceivable energy he had an inexhaustible form (avyayaḥ).

Atha indicates auspiciousness or all. Simultaneously he married them because they were women. Because of the nature of women, they would envy each other, being rivals. As many as there were women, he manifested as many forms to marry them: sixteen thousand one hundred forms. All these forms were real and eternal. Or as if having many forms, the one Kṛṣṇa married them all simultaneously because he was full of all powers (bhagavān) and therefore inexhaustible (avyayaḥ).