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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.5

పరమాసన ఆసీనం కృష్ణా కృష్ణమనిన్దితా । నవోఢా వ్రీడితా కిఞ్చిచ్ఛనైరేత్యాభ్యవన్దత ॥ ౫ ॥
paramāsana āsīnaṁ
[paramaasana aaseenam]
kṛṣṇā kṛṣṇam aninditā
[krishnaa krishnam aninditaa]
navoḍhā vrīḍitā kiñcic
[navodhaa vreeditaa kinchich]
chanair etyābhyavandata
[chanair etyaabhyavandata]
parama — exalted āsane — on a seat āsīnam — sitting kṛṣṇā — Draupadī kṛṣṇam — Kṛṣṇa aninditā — blameless nava — newly ūḍhā — married vrīḍitā — shy kiñcit — somewhat śanaiḥ — slowly etya — approaching abhyavandata — offered her obeisances .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
paramāsana āsīnaṁ
parama
exalted
āsane
on a seat
āsīnam
sitting
kṛṣṇā kṛṣṇam aninditā
kṛṣṇā
Draupadī
kṛṣṇam
Kṛṣṇa
aninditā
blameless
navoḍhā vrīḍitā kiñcic
nava
newly
ūḍhā
married
vrīḍitā
shy
kiñcit
somewhat
śanaiḥ
slowly
chanair etyābhyavandata
etya
approaching
abhyavandata
offered her obeisances .
  • kṛṣṇā — Draupadī
    Draupadī's other name — the dark one, parallel to Kṛṣṇa's own. Gauḍīyas read the doubled name in this verse (kṛṣṇā... kṛṣṇam) as the Bhāgavatam quietly signalling that she belongs to Him in a way the Pāṇḍava-marriage does not exhaust.
  • aninditā — faultless
    From a (not) + nindita (blamed). Bhāgavatam vouches her chastity at her first entrance — answering in advance every accusation the later assembly will hurl. Gauḍīyas take aninditā as Bhāgavata's seal.
  • vrīḍitā — somewhat timid
    Lajjā — bashfulness. In Gauḍīya rasa-śāstra, lajjā is one of the thirty-three sañcārī-bhāvas; it adorns the heroine when she approaches the hero. The Bhāgavatam, even in a narrative beat, paints with rasa-vocabulary.
  • abhyavandata — offered obeisances
    Imperfect form. The same root vand seen in verse 4 — but here Draupadī offers, where Kṛṣṇa earlier received and offered both. The verse-pair establishes the seated Lord at the centre of a court of mutual reverence.
Faultless Draupadī, the Pāṇḍavas’ newly married wife, slowly and somewhat timidly approached Lord Kṛṣṇa, who sat on an exalted seat, and offered Him her obeisances.

Śrīmatī Draupadī was so devoted to Kṛṣṇa that she herself was called Kṛṣṇā, which is the feminine form of the name, and Arjuna was also called Kṛṣṇa because of his devotion to the Lord. Similarly, the devotees of the modern Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are often called “the Kṛṣṇas.” So it appears that the custom of addressing Kṛṣṇa’s devotees by His name has a long history.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Faultless Draupadī, the Pāṇḍavas' newly married wife, slowly and somewhat timidly approached Lord Kṛṣṇa, who sat on an exalted seat, and offered Him her obeisances.
Commentary

Draupadi (Krsna) also greeted Krsna.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Kṛṣṇa was seated in the best seat. By the order of the Lord the Pāṇḍavas sat on their individual seats. Because Draupadī had the same name (Kṛṣnā) as Kṛṣṇa, they were friends. Coming slightly in front (abhi), very slowly, she offered respects.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Kṛṣṇa was seated in the best seat. By the order of the Lord, the Pāṇḍavas sat on their individual seats. Because Draupadī had the same name (Kṛṣnā) as Kṛṣṇa, they were friends. Kṛṣṇa attracted her heart with love. She approached “somewhat” shyly because she was newly married or because of her chaste nature. She did not have strong shyness since she did not have conjugal feelings for him. She was not able to maintain shyness because of the nature of seeing him or because she lost control. Or because of shyness she slowly greeted him, offering obeisances with five limbs and slightly touching his feet.

Related values
Shraddha (Faith / Reverence)Tyaga (Renunciation / Letting Go)Aparigraha (Non-possessiveness)Bhakti (Devotion)Yajña (Sacrifice / Spirit of Offering)Daksya (Resourcefulness / Skill)Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender to God)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)
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Concepts
Jiva

A new bride enters a great household stepping softly — not because she fears, but because the room she enters is already saturated with someone she cannot yet meet eye-to-eye. Draupadī approaches Kṛṣṇa exactly so: He is her cousin and her confidant, but here He is also the seated Lord, and the body knows.

Draupadī's sari at the assembly

When Duḥśāsana tried to disrobe Draupadī in the Kuru assembly (Mahābhārata, Sabhā-parva), she abandoned every other support and cried out, 'Govinda!' — and Kṛṣṇa extended an inexhaustible cloth.

That episode is the inner meaning of this small verse: the same Draupadī who later will be held only by Him approaches Him now with downcast eyes. The reverence of verse 5 prepares the surrender of the assembly.

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