"You should choose a more suitable husband." She replies to Krsna’s statement in two verses. "Let other princesses who have not heard of your glories take shelter of other husbands. But which mortal woman, who has once smelled the fragrance of your lotus feet (heard your glories ), praised by sages who are like bees (san mukaritam), and which give liberation to any human being by being heard, can give up those feet (a daughter of a raksasa or preta perhaps could) and take shelter of someone else, always afflicted with great fear? Let those who are blind, without discrimination, take shelter of others. You are the abode of all good qualities." By this statement she refutes his statement that he is devoid of good qualities (verse 16).

Others take shelter of others. What woman would take shelter of someone else after smelling the fragrance of your lotus feet and disregarding that? Such a person does not exist. The meaning of the phrase however is actually “Who would take shelter of anyone else after hearing about all of your qualities with devotion?” That fragrance is described by ātmārāmas. It is without austerities that people perform (jana-tāpa-vargam) since it is endowed with all wealth (lakṣmy-ālayaṁ). It is served by those desiring liberation. And it belongs to you, an ocean of qualities (guṇālayasya). The fault of others is described. The mortal is completely (ā) filled with fear at all times (sadā). This statement represents other types of people as well. He is the opposite of the persons described above. “But we see many others taking shelter of others.” They focus on material wealth. They are fools.

Smelling the fragrance of even one foot-- attaining even by hearing from far off even a slight relationship with you, what to speak of directly attaining you—who would take shelter of anything else? Even the fragrance is endowed with all your qualities (guṇālayasya). The fragrance awards liberation and is the abode of Lakṣmī. Therefore it is praised by Nārada and other sages. Who would disrespect the fragrance of you, the abode of qualities, and take shelter of something else? Everyone should take shelter of you, because those who are subject to death (martyāḥ) like Mārkaṇḍeya are delivered. They see the highest goal. Others cannot protect one or give the highest benefit. Why take shelter of one who is always in great fear (anyam sadoru-bhayam)? Or that fragrance is glorified even by those who are silent (sat). Or that fragrance causes the devotees (jana) to reject (varga) impersonal realization typified by or generated by austerities (tāpa). That fragrance is the abode of all wealth (lakṣmyālayam). The order of the list is with increasing excellence.