SB 10.71.33 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.33

प्राप्तं निशम्य नरलोचनपानपात्र- मौत्सुक्यविश्लथितकेशदुकूलबन्धा: । सद्यो विसृज्य गृहकर्म पतींश्च तल्पे द्रष्टुं ययुर्युवतय: स्म नरेन्द्रमार्गे ॥ ३३ ॥

prāptaṁ niśamya nara-locana-pāna-pātram

[praaptam nishamya nara-lochana-paana-paatram]

autsukya-viślathita-keśa-dukūla-bandhāḥ

[autsukya-vishlathita-kesha-dukoola-bandhaah]

sadyo visṛjya gṛha-karma patīṁś ca talpe

[sadyo visrijya griha-karma pateemsh cha talpe]

draṣṭuṁ yayur yuvatayaḥ sma narendra-mārge

[drashtum yayur yuvatayah sma narendra-maarge]

Word-for-word

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 talpe — in bed draṣṭum — to see yayuḥ — went yuvatayaḥ — the young girls sma — indeed nara - indra — of the king mārge — onto the road .

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

prāptaṁ niśamya nara-locana-pāna-pātram

prāptam

arrived

niśamya

hearing

nara

of men

locana

of the eyes

pāna

of drinking

pātram

the object, or reservoir

autsukya-viślathita-keśa-dukūla-bandhāḥ

autsukya

out of their eagerness

viślathita

loosened

keśa

their hair

dukūla

of their dresses

bandhāḥ

and the knots

sadyo visṛjya gṛha-karma patīṁś ca talpe

sadyaḥ

immediately

visṛjya

abandoning

gṛha

of the household

karma

their work

patīn

their husbands

and

talpe

in bed

draṣṭuṁ yayur yuvatayaḥ sma narendra-mārge

draṣṭum

to see

yayuḥ

went

yuvatayaḥ

the young girls

sma

indeed

nara - indra

of the king

mārge

onto the road .

Important Words

nara - locana - pāna - pātram — the cup/object for men's eye-drinking
Pāna-pātra — drinking-vessel. The eye drinks the Lord's form; Kṛṣṇa is described as the very cup that holds the drink. Gauḍīyas note the doubled image — He is both the beverage and the vessel.
viślathita — loosened
Past participle — knots of hair and garment loosened in eagerness. The body's untidying registers the soul's tidiness; outer disarray as inner-aligned love.
autsukya — eagerness
One of the sañcāri-bhāvas in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu — the heart leaning forward toward the beloved. The women's run is a textbook sañcāri.

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.

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya

Commentary

Three verses describe the good fortune of the city’s women. Their tied hair and clothing became unloosened because of their ardor. Some persons, attached to enjoyment, lie down on the bed after taking lunch. Or in the forenoon they had heard of Kṛṣṇa arriving in the city and being embraced by the Pāṇḍavas.

Related values & verses

Related values

Nishkama Karma (Selfless Action)Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Kartavya (Duty / Responsibility)

Concepts

JivaKarma

Personal Guidance

Young women left their household duties and even their husbands' beds, garments loosening, to see Kṛṣṇa. Pure attraction to the Lord rearranges priorities without negotiation. The Lord simply takes precedence.

Reflection Questions

What in my life is being negotiated when it should simply yield to the Lord?
Where might allowing things to fall away be the truer order?

Analogy

Young women of Indraprastha abandoning kitchen and husband to run to the road for one glimpse of Kṛṣṇa are like deer in a forest who, hearing the flute, no longer remember the grass in their mouths — the call of Hari overrides every prior task.

Stories

Gopī-bhāva in Indraprastha

The verse's image — leaving husbands in bed, hair and garments coming loose, running for Kṛṣṇa-darśana — is a direct echo of the gopīs answering the flute in 10.29. Bhāgavatam quietly transplants the Vraja-bhāva into a kṣatriya city.

Gauḍīya ācāryas treasure this verse: even the women of Indraprastha, never previously characterised as gopīs, momentarily inhabit the same overflow when Kṛṣṇa walks their street. Mādhurya is not geographically bounded; the road becomes Vraja for an hour.

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