"O holder of the earth, Raivataka Mountain! You are thinking of your desired goals (mahantam artham) and thus you remain silent and unmoving. This is your desire (api bata): as we desire to hold his feet on our breasts, you desire to hold Krsna’s feet on your peaks. If that is so, then you will end up in the same predicament as us."

Seeing the solid Raivataka Mountain standing in silence, since all its living entities had been sleeping during the night, the queens speak to it. O upholder of the earth! Though you hold up the earth five billion yojanas in breadth, you do not move and you do not speak. Therefore, you are most intelligent (udāra-buddhe)! They show how this is so. You are contemplating, or do you perhaps desire (kāmayase) some great object? Api indicates a question. Bata indicates lamentation. This great matter could be of great variety, depending on the person. Do you desire the feet of the prominent son of Vasudeva, who is our father-in-law, worthy of our worship (deva-putra)? Out of shyness they do not directly say Kṛṣṇa’s name, just as the gopīs say ārya-putra. Do you, like us, desire to embrace to your breasts (mountain peaks) his feet which are a treasure (vasu)? If you desire that, you will become foolish like us, unable to maintain your very life. “Breasts” is in the plural rather than dual to indicate intense greed for Kṛṣṇa. If the name Vasudeva is taken as one word, it is not fault that they say their father-in-law’s name directly, since they are in a state of unmāda.

Seeing the solid Raivataka Mountain standing in silence, since all its living entities had been sleeping during the night, the queens speak to it. O most intelligent (udāra-buddhe)! This is proper conduct of a gentleman. O holder of the earth! You protect the earth. Perhaps you are thinking of something important. Do you desire to hold the lotus feet of most attractive Lord (vasudeva-nandana), with embraces of prema (vi-dhartum)?