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Not just Bhadra-Krishna's, but Mitravindrya-Krishna's as well. Mitravindya's mother had the same relationship w/ Vasudeva.
One thing I noticed - all these cousin marriages were in SB, and only the Arjun-Subhadra one fell within MB. And Nakula-Karenamati. The latter was a case of the offspring of 2 sister's marrying, unless one considers Nakula as not Kunti's son for genetic purposes (which is the main, if not only, root of objection to such unions). In case of Arjun-Subhadra, what restrictions were there? Arjun was Kunti's son, no matter how one slices or dices it, while Subhadra was Vasudev's daughter, regardless of whether she was born to Devaki or Rohini.
Some of the other cousin marriage stories going around seemed invented - Abhimanyu-Vatsala and Parikshit-Madravati. Parikshit's wife was Iravati, who was not connected to Matsya (while the claim about Madravati was that she was Uttar's daughter, which is impossible, since Uttar was a boy, and probably unmarried and childless. In fact, the Virata dynasty was one of the ones that was completely wiped out in the war).
Incidentally, kshatriya dharam requires that there be 7(!) generations of separation b/w a husband and wife for such a marriage to be legal. But the above cases seemed to be clear violations of that rule.
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