Parāçara said:—Rukmini bore Krishna these other sons Charudeshna,
Sudeshna, Charudeha, Sushena, Charugupta, Bhadracharu, Charuvinda,
Sucharu and the very powerful Charu; also one daughter Charumati.
Krishna had seven other beautiful wives:-Kālindi, Mitravrindā, the
virtuous Nāgnajiti, the queen Jāmbavati; Rohini, of beautiful form; the
amiable and excellent daughter of the king of Madra, Mādrí; Satyabhāmā,
the daughter of Satrujit; and Lakshmanā, of lovely smiles. Besides
these, he had sixteen thousand other wives. The highly powerful
Pradyumna took the beautiful daughter of Rukmin at her public choice of
a husband and she too accepted Hari's son. Of her was born a highly
powerful son Aniruddha, fierce in fight on account of prowess and the
subduer of enemies. Keshava demanded in marriage the grand daughter of
Rukmin and though the latter was inimical to Krishna he gave him his
grand daughter. On the occasion of his nuptials Rāma and other Yādavas
accompanied Krishna to Bhojakata, the city of Rukmin. After the wedding
had been finished several of the kings headed by him of Kalinga said to
Rukmin "Although the wielder of plough-share is ignorant of dice he has
got a great passion for it; why may we not fight with him and beat him
in play?"
Parāçara said:—The powerful Rukmin replied to the kings, saying "so be
it" and he engaged Balarāma at a game of dice in the palace. Balarāma
lost to Rukmin a thousand gold coins; he betted a second time and lost
another thousand to Rukmin. And the third time he staked ten thousand
Niskshas and this time also won Rukmin the foremost of those expert of
gambling, At this time the king of Kalinga laughed aloud and the weak
and vain Rukmin groaned and said:—"By me this Baladava, ignorant of
gambling, has been defeated; and blinded by a vain passion for play he
think that he understands dice". Beholding the king of Kalinga laugh
aloud and hearing the contemptuous words of Rukmin the wielder of
plough-share was worked up with ire and increased his stake to ten
millions of Niskshas Rukmi accepted the challenge and threw dice.
This time Baladeva won and cried aloud. "This stake is mine". Rukmin
cried loudly and said that he was the winner. "Tell no lies Bala," cited
he. "It is true that the stake is yours, but I did not agree to it;
although this be won by you, yet still I am the winner".
Thereupon a deep voice was heard in the welkin increasing the more the
ire of the high-minded Baladeva, saying:—"Baladeva has justly won the
whole amount; Rukmin speaks lies; although he did not accept the pledge
in words he did so by his acts". Thus inflamed and having his eyes
reddened with rage, Balarāma got up and struck Rukmin with the board on
which the game was played and slew him. And holding the trembling king
of Kalinga, Bala forcibly knocked out the teeth which he had shown when
he laughed. And uprooting a huge golden column he, enraged, killed
therewith all those princes who had assisted his adversaries. Thereupon,
O twice-born one, Bala being enraged, the whole circle cried out with
fear and fled on all sides from his terror. When the slayer of Madhu
heard that Rukmin had been slain by Bala he could not speak anything,
being afraid of Rukmin on one hand and Bala on the other. Thereupon
taking with him the newly wedded Aniruddha and the Yadu tribe he
returned to Dwārakā.