Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2-3


Sanskrit:

श्रीशुक उवाचअर्जुनस्तीर्थयात्रायां पर्यटन्नवनीं प्रभु: ।गत: प्रभासमश‍ृणोन्मातुलेयीं स आत्मन: ॥ २ ॥दुर्योधनाय रामस्तां दास्यतीति न चापरे ।तल्लिप्सु: स यतिर्भूत्वा त्रिदण्डी द्वारकामगात् ॥ ३ ॥

ITRANS:

śrī-śuka uvācaarjunas tīrtha-yātrāyāṁparyaṭann avanīṁ prabhuḥgataḥ prabhāsam aśṛṇonmātuleyīṁ sa ātmanaḥ

Translation:

Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: While traveling far and wide visiting various holy places of pilgrimage, Arjuna came to Prabhāsa. There he heard that Lord Balarāma intended to give his maternal cousin Subhadrā to Duryodhana in marriage, and that no one else approved of this plan. Arjuna wanted to marry her himself, so he disguised himself as a renunciant, complete with triple staff, and went to Dvārakā.

Purport:

Arjuna’s plan for obtaining Subhadrā as his wife may have seemed unconventional, but he was not acting without encouragement; in fact, Lord Kṛṣṇa was his prime co-conspirator. And in Dvārakā, most of the members of the royal family, especially Vasudeva, were unhappy about giving their favorite daughter to Duryodhana.