Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 71: The Lord Travels to Indraprastha

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.71.33

prāptaḿ niśamya nara-locana-pāna-pātram

autsukya-viślathita-keśa-dukūla-bandhāḥ

sadyo visṛjya gṛha-karma patīḿś ca talpe

draṣṭuḿ yayur yuvatayaḥ sma narendra-mārge

SYNONYMS

prāptam — arrived; niśamya — hearing; nara — of men; locana — of the eyes; pāna — of drinking; pātram — the object, or reservoir; autsukya — out of their eagerness; viślathita — loosened; keśa — their hair; dukūla — of their dresses; bandhāḥ — and the knots; sadyaḥ — immediately; visṛjya — abandoning; gṛha — of the household; karma — their work; patīn — their husbands; ca — and; talpein bed; draṣṭumto see; yayuḥ — went; yuvatayaḥ — the young girls; sma — indeed; nara-indra — of the king; mārge — onto the road.

TRANSLATION

When the young women of the city heard that Lord Kṛṣṇa, the reservoir of pleasure for human eyes, had arrived, they hurriedly went onto the royal road to see Him. They abandoned their household duties and even left their husbands in bed, and in their eagerness the knots of their hair and garments came loose.

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