{"id":29383,"date":"2021-05-23T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T19:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=29383"},"modified":"2022-01-07T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:28:00","slug":"urvasi-curses-arjuna-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/urvasi-curses-arjuna-2\/","title":{"rendered":"URVASI CURSES ARJUNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Srila Prabhupada: In one sense, Indra is the real father of Arjuna, and therefore indirectly he wanted to entertain Arjuna with the famous society girl of heaven, Urva\u015b\u012b, the celebrated beauty. The society girls of heaven are lusty, and Urva\u015b\u012b was very eager to contact Arjuna, the strongest human being. She met him in his room and expressed her desires but Arjuna sustained his unimpeachable character by closing his eyes before Urva\u015b\u012b, addressing her as mother of the Kuru dynasty and placing her in the category of his mothers Kunt\u012b, M\u0101dr\u012b and \u015aac\u012bdev\u012b, wife of Indradeva. Disappointed, Urva\u015b\u012b cursed Arjuna and left.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">(From purport, Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.12.21)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Urvasi had once been married to Arjuna&#8217;s ancestor King Pururava, and so he refused her advances. Urvasi cursed Arjuna to become a eunuch, which proved useful during the year of their exile when the Pandavas had to remain inognito, allowing Arjuna to become the dance teacher Brihannala.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Painting: Arjuna and Urvasi by B.P. Banerjee, early 1900s<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Srila Prabhupada: In one sense, Indra is the real father of Arjuna, and therefore indirectly he wanted to entertain Arjuna with the famous society girl of heaven, Urva\u015b\u012b, the celebrated beauty. The society girls of &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/urvasi-curses-arjuna-2\/\" aria-label=\"URVASI CURSES ARJUNA\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-area2"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 06:14:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}