Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami
From the book “Sri Vraja-maṇḍala-parikramā”:
This kuṇḍa is situated to the west just below Lalitā-sthala. Once, Śrī Rādhā and Śrī Kṛṣṇa together with the sakhīs were bathing here during a festival. As they were dressing themselves after bathing, a poor brāhmaṇa came there and in a piteous voice addressed Śrī Kṛṣṇa, “I have a daughter of marriageable age, but due to lack of money, I cannot offer her to a suitable husband. Therefore, please give me some wealth.”
Śrī Kṛṣṇa thought, “Rādhā is My only and entire wealth. But for Her, I possess nothing else of value.” So He told the brāhmaṇa, “I want to give you My entire fortune, not just a little money.” He then pointed towards Śrī Rādhā and said, “She is My entire property and wealth. Please accept Her.”
When the poor brāhmaṇa heard this, he began to beat his head in sadness. He said, “O Vrajeśa-nandana, I could not even arrange a suitable husband for my one daughter; how will I ever be able to marry off two? This is disastrous for me. What should I do now?” The brāhmaṇa only wanted gold. Understanding this, Śrī Kṛṣṇa put Priyājī on one side of a scale and Her weight in gold on the other. He then gave all this gold to the brāhmaṇa. Śrīmatījī also became pleased with this arrangement, which relieved Her of much trouble. The brāhmaṇa was given an abundance of gold and very happily returned to his home, where he completed the marriage of his daughter with a grand celebration.
It is also said that once a wealthy person was suffering severely from leprosy. He came here, bathed in this kuṇḍa, and donated ten karṣa (160 grams) of gold to qualified brāhmaṇas. After some time, his disease left him.
Rajashekhara Dasa
From the book “Chaurasi-kosa Vraja Mandala Parikrama”:
The word ‘deha’ refers to both the material and spiritual ‘body’ and it is said that the gopis surrendered everything including their bodies to Krishna at this place. Another story says that Shri Krishna actually donated Radharani’s body at this spot. Once when Krishna came to meet the gopis here, a very poor brahmana living nearby approached Krishna to ask for ‘dana’ (a donation) so that he could get his only daughter married. Krishna declared that His only wealth was His beloved Radharani and therefore He would donate Her to the brahmana. The poor brahmana was dismayed at the thought of receiving another daughter for whom he would have to arrange yet another marriage. At that moment, the gopis brought a scale and placed Radharani on one side of it; they then took of their gold bangles, rings, necklaces, and other items of jewelry and loaded it on to the other end of the scale. When Radharani’s weight was counterbalanced by all the gold jewelry, the gopis immediately handed over all the jewelry to the poor brahmana for his daughter’s wedding. Thus Krishna donated Radharani’s deha or ‘body weight’ in gold to the poor brahmana. Because of this pastime of donating Radha’s weight in gold, there is a temple nearby known as Dan-Bihari Mandira, the word ‘dana’ means ‘donation’ and ‘Bihari’ means Krishna ‘the Enjoyer’.
