Verse 14

¹⁴Tell the wives that I have come, and Sankarsana with me. They will give you as much food as you want; they are tender, and their minds live in me. ¹⁵So they went, and seeing the wives sitting in the wives' hall, well adorned, the cowherds bowed to those true women of the twice-born and said this, humbly: ¹⁶Our salutation to you, wives of the brahmins. Hear what we say. We were sent here by Krsna, who is going about not far from this place. ¹⁷He has come a long way, grazing the cows with the cowherds and with Rama. He is hungry: let food be given to him and to those with him. ¹⁸Hearing that the Unfallen had come near — they who were always eager to see him and whose minds were carried off by talk of him — they were all in a flurry.

¹⁹Taking food of four kinds and of many good things in vessels, they all ran out to the one they loved, as rivers run to the sea. ²⁰Their husbands held them back, and their brothers, their kinsmen and their sons; but their hearts were fixed on the Bhagavan whose renown is highest, held there by what they had long been hearing.