Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 27


Sanskrit:

एवं निर्भर्त्सिता भीता यमुना यदुनन्दनम् ।उवाच चकिता वाचं पतिता पादयोर्नृप ॥ २७ ॥

ITRANS:

evaṁ nirbhartsitā bhītāyamunā yadu-nandanamuvāca cakitā vācaṁpatitā pādayor nṛpa

Translation:

[Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] Thus scolded by the Lord, O King, the frightened river-goddess Yamunā came and fell at the feet of Śrī Balarāma, the beloved descendant of Yadu. Trembling, she spoke to Him the following words.

Purport:

According to Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, the goddess who appeared before Lord Balarāma is an expansion of Śrīmatī Kālindī, one of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s queens in Dvārakā. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī calls her a “shadow” of Kālindī, and Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī confirms that she is an expansion of Kālindī, not Kālindī herself. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī also gives evidence from Śrī Hari-vaṁśa — in the statement pratyuvācārṇava-vadhūm — that Goddess Yamunā is the wife of the ocean. The Hari-vaṁśa therefore also refers to her as sāgarāṅganā.