Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.80.8
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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pati - vratā
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faithful to her husband
Compound: pati (husband) + vrata (vow). The classical Sanskrit virtue of conjugal fidelity. Gauḍīyas place it under stridharma but note that for the wives of devotees, pativratā-dharma flows naturally into kṛṣṇa-bhakti, since the husband is already a bhakta.
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vepamānā
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trembling
Present participle of √vep. Her body shows what her words must say. Gauḍīyas read the tremble as the bodily form of vinaya — humility before one's husband, mirroring the bhakta's humility before Bhagavān.
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mlāyatā
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drying up
Present participle of √mlā — to wither. The Bhāgavatam paints a withered face, not a serene one. Sevā-bhāva here is wrung out of bodily suffering, not from comfort.
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daridram
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poor
From √dṛ. Daridratā in śāstra is not a state to romanticize, but Sudāmā's daridratā is the very condition Kṛṣṇa will honor in verses 18-23. Gauḍīyas note: the Lord chooses to overturn this particular daridratā.
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abhigamya
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approaching
Gerund of abhi-√gam. The verb of formal approach — a wife who must approach her husband formally because the topic is grave. The verse models the way a devotee approaches when about to ask the Lord for something important.
According to Śrīdhara Svāmī, the chaste lady was especially unhappy because she could not obtain food to feed her husband. Further, she was fearful to approach her husband because she knew that he did not want to beg for anything other than devotion to the Supreme Lord.
Dispirited because her husband was unable to obtain any food for her husband, and trembling out of fear for her husband, because it was improper to ask the Lord for anything other than devotion, she spoke to her husband.
She was afraid of her husband because she thought it was not proper to ask the Lord for anything except devotion. But she was constantly hunger, since her husband was unable to supply necessities. Thus her face was faded. She became depressed and was trembling.
Though (vai) she was trembling with fear she came in front of him and offered respects (ca). She spoke with affection (pra āha) or while thinking of the Lord’s friendship, her face withered out of fear. Why? She was his wife and he was suffering with poverty. Or because of hunger she was weakened by hunger (sīdanāmāḥ) and thus trembled and her face was withered, because she was a wife. She was similar to him. All this indicates poverty as the reason. Thus she spoke. Vai means it is well known.
She was afraid of her husband because she thought it was not proper to ask the Lord for anything except devotion. But she was constantly hunger, since her husband was unable to supply necessities. Thus her face was faded. She became depressed and was trembling.
A trembling hand still folds in añjali: poverty has dried her face but not her devotion. The pativratā approaches her husband the way a devotee approaches Bhagavān — fearful of presumption, certain of his goodness, willing to speak.
When stripped before the assembly, Draupadī, after exhausting human protectors, raised both arms and called Govinda. Kṛṣṇa supplied unending cloth (Mahābhārata, Sabhā Parva).
Like Sudāmā's wife, Draupadī is a pativratā who, in extreme distress, turns to the Yādava-friend. Gauḍīyas pair the two episodes — both wives, both saved by the same Person — as proof that pativratā-dharma converges in śaraṇāgati.
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Source: vedabase.io