Rohini

Garga Muni said: This child, the son of Rohiṇī, will give all happiness to His relatives and friends by His transcendental qualities. Therefore He will be known as Rāma. And because He will manifest extraordinary bodily strength, He will…

Śrī Draupadī said: O Vaidarbhī, Bhadrā and Jāmbavatī, O Kauśalā, Satyabhāmā and Kālindī, O Śaibyā, Rohiṇī, Lakṣmaṇā and other wives of Lord Kṛṣṇa, please tell me how the Supreme Lord Acyuta, imitating the ways of this world by His mystic…

Then Rohiṇī and Devakī both embraced the Queen of Vraja, remembering the faithful friendship she had shown them. Their throats choking with tears, they addressed her as follows.

In Gokula dwells Rohiṇī, the wife of Vasudeva. At the time of her delivery, the embryo is to be brought into your womb.

When the seventh pregnancy had reached Rohiṇī, then Hari indeed entered the womb of Devakī, for the benefit of the three worlds.

“My child too is there—the one born of Rohiṇī. He must be protected by you, just as (you would protect) your own son.”

When the seventh (embryo) had gone to Rohiṇī, then Hari—moved by the purpose of blessing the three worlds—indeed entered the womb of Devakī.

“And there, my own child too—he who has been born of Rohiṇī—must be protected by you, just as this child is your very own son.”

In Gokula dwells Rohiṇī, another wife of Vasudeva. O goddess, the One who is to be born as her equal in birth is to be led by you into her womb.