Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.69.32
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kalpayantam
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arranging, ordaining
Present participle of √kḷp (to arrange, make fit). The verb of orderly assembly. Kṛṣṇa kalpayati — He fits the suitable bride to the suitable bridegroom, exercising the cosmic ordering function on the domestic scale.
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vidhi-upayāpanam
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marriage according to scripture
Compound: vidhi (rule, scripture) + upayāpana (causing to marry). Marriage is performed by śāstric rule, not by personal choice. Gauḍīyas: even Bhagavān's own children are married vidhi-pūrvakam, dignifying scripture above sentiment.
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sadṛśaiḥ
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compatible, suitable
From sa + √dṛś (to look). Like-with-like. Marriages are matched for compatibility — kula, varṇa, guṇa. Kṛṣṇa as paterfamilias respects the same calculus śāstra prescribes for any householder.
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vibhūtibhiḥ
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with opulences, pomp
Vibhūti — manifestation of glory. Compare BG 10's vibhūti-yoga: Kṛṣṇa's opulence is itself sevā when offered up in dharmic ceremony. The marriages are vibhūti-yukta — performed with grandeur, but the grandeur is offered, not displayed.
This translation is based on Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Kṛṣṇa. The word kāle here means that Kṛṣṇa arranged for His sons and daughters to be married when each of them reached the proper age.
He got his sons and daughters married using many materials.
Two verses describe affairs in the family. He arranged brides of similar nature to his sons and similar grooms for his daughters and arranged for gifts along with the daughters’ marriages. In some houses he married his sons and in some houses he married his daughters.
Two verses describe affairs in the family. He arranged brides of similar nature for his sons and similar grooms for his daughters and arranged for gifts along with the daughters’ marriages. In some houses he married his sons and in some houses he married his daughters. Or he did this all in one house along with Balarāma. Though there was only one daughter in each house, the plural is used. This would indicate daughters of his sons and brother.
- What duty of mine has been waiting for the right time and the right celebration?
- How can ordinary obligations be lifted into joyful occasion?
A father presiding over the betrothal of his children to suitable spouses — checking lineage, age, character, the auspicious muhūrta — is not a ceremonial figurehead; he is the chief architect of two new dharmic households. Kṛṣṇa, even at the head of the universe, takes that office seriously enough to do it Himself.
My note
Source: vedabase.io