• smaranti — do they remember
  Same root √smṛ as smaraṇa-bhakti. Kuntī's plaintive question quietly raises the doctrinal axis Canto 1's prayer (1.8.18–43) will resolve: bhakti is the technology of mutual remembrance between bhakta and Bhagavān.
• saumya — O gentle one
  From soma — moon-like, cool, calming. The address suits Akrūra, whose name (a-krūra, 'not-cruel') is the etymological promise of his gentleness; Kuntī recognises the rasa he embodies.
• sakhyaḥ — girlfriends
  Feminine plural of sakhi. Even in extremis Kuntī asks after her childhood companions — the Bhāgavatam preserves the human texture of her exile, which becomes the basis on which she will turn next to Kṛṣṇa.
• jāmayaḥ — women of the family
  The wider circle of female kin — sisters-in-law, daughters-in-law. Kuntī's grief is structured: she names the concentric rings of belonging that she has lost daily access to.

• Padaseva Pr SB 10-49-08 Oriya
  His Grace Padaseva Prabhu· Oriya

• Whose remembrance of you matters most, and have you asked after it?
• What names from your past would you want recalled if a messenger came?

Kuntī's question is the question of every exiled soul: am I still held in mind by the home I left? Like a daughter writing back to her village, she names every relation by category — parents, brothers, sisters, sakhīs — testing whether memory still flows both ways across the distance.