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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 6.74
sakhyopetyagrahit panim
SYNONYMS
tapah -- austerity; carantim -- performing; 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; griha-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 Krishna."
PURPORT
Like the previous verse, 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 Krishna named Kalindi spoke to Draupadi in this way.
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness