Verse 12

¹²So the brahmin, asked by his wife many times over, again and again, thought: to see him whose renown is highest, that is the greatest gain of all. ¹³Thinking this over in his mind he made up his mind to go. Is there anything in the house to take as a present, good woman? Let me have it. ¹⁴She begged four handfuls of flattened rice from the brahmins, tied them up in a scrap of cloth, and gave her husband his present. ¹⁵That best of brahmins took them and set out for Dvaraka, wondering all the way how it might come about that he should see Krsna. ¹⁶The twice-born man passed three guard posts and three gateways, and went in among the houses of the Andhakas and Vrsnis, whose way is the Unfallen's own and which no one may enter.

¹⁷He went into one of the houses of Hari's sixteen thousand queens, a house full of splendour, as though he had come into the bliss of Brahman.