SB 8.16.8

Srimad-Bhagavatam, Eight Canto, Chapter 16: Executing the Payo-vrata Process of Worship

SB 8.16.7

SB 8.16.9

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 8

apy agnayas tu velāyāṁ
na hutā haviṣā sati
tvayodvigna-dhiyā bhadre
proṣite mayi karhicit

SYNONYMS

api—whether; agnayaḥ—fires; tu—indeed; velāyām—in the fire sacrifice; na—not; hutāḥ—offered; haviṣā—by ghee; sati—O chaste woman; tvayā—by you; udvigna-dhiyā—because of some anxiety; bhadre—O auspicious woman; proṣite—was away from home; mayi—when I; karhicit—sometimes.

TRANSLATION

O chaste and auspicious woman, when I left home for other places, were you in so much anxiety that you did not offer oblations of ghee into the fire?