Canto 8: Withdrawal of the Cosmic CreationsChapter 22: Bali Mahārāja Surrenders His Life

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 8.22.19

baddhaḿ vīkṣya patiḿ sādhvī

tat-patnī bhaya-vihvalā

prāñjaliḥ praṇatopendraḿ

babhāṣe 'vāń-mukhī nṛpa

SYNONYMS

baddham — arrested; vīkṣya — seeing; patim — her husband; sādhvī — the chaste woman; tat-patnīBali Mahārāja's wife; bhaya-vihvalā — being very disturbed by fear; prāñjaliḥ — with folded hands; praṇatā — having offered obeisances; upendram — unto Vāmanadeva; babhāṣe — addressed; avāk-mukhī — with face downward; nṛpaO Mahārāja Parīkṣit.

TRANSLATION

But Bali Mahārāja's chaste wife, afraid and aggrieved at seeing her husband arrested, immediately offered obeisances to Lord Vāmanadeva [Upendra]. She folded her hands and spoke as follows.

PURPORT

Although Lord Brahmā was speaking, he had to stop for a while because Bali Mahārāja's wife, Vindhyāvali, who was very agitated and afraid, wanted to say something.

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