Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 31


Sanskrit:

कामं विहृत्य सलिलादुत्तीर्णायासीताम्बरे ।भूषणानि महार्हाणि ददौ कान्ति: शुभां स्रजम् ॥ ३१ ॥

ITRANS:

kāmaṁ vihṛtya salilāduttīrṇāyāsītāmbarebhūṣaṇāni mahārhāṇidadau kāntiḥ śubhāṁ srajam

Translation:

The Lord played in the water to His full satisfaction, and when He came out Goddess Kānti presented Him with blue garments, precious ornaments and a brilliant necklace.

Purport:

Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī quotes from the Viṣṇu Purāṇa to show that the goddess Kānti mentioned here is actually Lakṣmī, the goddess of fortune: “Sent by Varuna, Goddess Lakṣmī then presented Him with a garland of unfading lotuses and a pair of garments colored blue like the ocean.” The great Bhāgavatam commentator Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī also quotes the following statement from Śrī Hari-vaṁśa, spoken by Goddess Lakṣmī to Lord Balarāma: “O Lord, please accept as divine ornaments for Your ears this single gold earring studded with diamonds and this primeval lotus called Padma. Kindly accept them, for this act of adornment is traditional.” Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī further points out that Goddess Lakṣmī is the consort of the Lord’s plenary expansion Saṅkarṣaṇa who belongs to the second vyūha.