Part 20: Marriage with Kapilā

Going to the city Vedasāma, he was escorted by Vanamālā to her own house, after saying, “Come, come, brother-in-law.” She announced, “Here is Vasudeva,” and her father, after asking, “How are you?” explained:

“Kapila is king here. He has a daughter, Kapilā. You, noble sir, living in the village Giritaṭa, were described formerly as her husband by an astrologer. ‘He will subdue the horse, named Sphulliṅgavahana,’ was said by the astrologer to be the means of recognizing you. My son-in-law, the sorcerer, lndraśarman, was sent by the king to bring you here; but he reported here that in the meantime you had gone. By good luck you have come. Subdue the horse.” Vṛṣṇi’s son, when he had been told this, subdued the king’s horse and married Kapilā. Honored by the king and by his brother-in-law, Aṃśumat, he begot a son, Kapila, by Kapilā.

One day he went to capture an elephant and he mounted the elephant, after capturing it, and struck it with his fist as it was jumping up in the air. Falling on the bank of a pool, it became the Khecara, Nīlakaṇṭha, who had come to fight at the marriage with Nīlayaśas.