Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.42.1

śrī-śuka uvāca

atha vrajan rāja-pathena mādhavah

striyam grihītāńga-vilepa-bhājanām

vilokya kubjām yuvatīm varānanām

papraccha yāntīm prahasan rasa-pradah

SYNONYMS

śrī-śukah uvāca — Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; atha — then; vrajan — walking; rāja-pathena — along the King's road; mādhavah — Krishna; striyam — a woman; grihīta — holding; ańga — for the body; vilepa — with ointments; bhājanām — a tray; vilokya — seeing; kubjām — hunchbacked; yuvatīm — young; vara-ānanām — with an attractive face; papraccha — He inquired; yāntīm — going; prahasan — smiling; rasa — of the pleasure of love; pradah — the bestower.

TRANSLATION

Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: As He walked down the King's road, Lord Mādhava then saw a young hunchback woman with an attractive face, who carried a tray of fragrant ointments as she walked along. The bestower of the ecstasy of love smiled and inquired from her as follows.

PURPORT

According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura, the young hunchbacked girl was actually a partial expansion of the Lord's wife Satyabhāmā. Satyabhāmā is the Lord's internal energy known as Bhū-śakti, and this expansion of hers, known as Prithivī, represents the earth, which was bent down by the great burden of countless wicked rulers. Lord Krishna descended to remove these wicked rulers, and thus His pastime of straightening out the hunchback Trivakrā, as explained in these verses, represents His rectifying the burdened condition of the earth. At the same time, the Lord awarded Trivakrā a conjugal relationship with Himself.

In addition to the given meaning, the word rasa-pradah indicates that the Lord amused His cowherd boyfriends by His dealings with the young hunchback.

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