Ādi 6.74

TEXT 74

TEXT

তপশ্চরন্তীমাজ্ঞায় স্বপাদস্পর্শনাশয়া ।
সখ্যোপেত্যাগ্রহীৎ পাণিং সাহং তদ্‌গৃহমার্জনী ॥ ৭৪ ॥

tapas caranti majnaya

sva-pada-sparsanasaya

sakhyopetyagrahit panim

saham tad-grha-marjani

SYNONYMS

tapah-austerity; caranti-performing; ma-me; ajnaya-knowing; sva-pada-sparsana-of touching His feet; asaya-with the desire; sakhya-with His friend Arjuna; upetya-coming; agrahit-accepted; panim-my hand; sa-that woman; aham-I; tat-His; grha-marjani-keeper of the home.

TRANSLATION

"Knowing me to be performing austerities with the desire to touch His feet, He came with His friend Arjuna and accepted my hand. Yet I am but a maidservant engaged in sweeping the floor of the house of Sri Krsna."

PURPORT

This verse appears in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.83.11) in connection with the meeting of the family ladies of the Kuru and Yadu dynasties at Samanta-pancaka. At the time of that meeting, the queen of Krsna named Kalindi spoke to Draupadi in this way.